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Kanak, N. Jack; And Others – Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1972
Four experiments using varying methodological factors examined the frequency theory of verbal discrimination learning. (MB)
Descriptors: Association Measures, Associative Learning, Discrimination Learning, Learning Theories
Underwood, Benton J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 1976
Tests the theory that culturally associated words in a pair and nonassociated words in a pair differ after a single study trial in terms of their frequency representation in memory. (Editor/RK)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Charts, Experimental Psychology, Experiments
Nakayama, Susan Y.; Kee, Daniel W. – 1977
This study was conducted to determine the generality of the automatic encoding phenomenon. It was hypothesized that elaborative facilitation of paired associate learning would be induced by mere inspection of conjoined referents without instructions to remember. Subjects were 120 kindergarten and 120 second grade children who were tested…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Elementary School Students, Factor Analysis, Learning Theories
Finn, Michael S. – 1973
Carter's model of affective relations (1965) and Chaffee's research on cognitive discrepancies and communication (1959) are used to test the hypotheses that increasing an attribute's discriminatory power will increase attribute salience and that increasing the exclusiveness of an object's attributes will increase objective salience. The current…
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes, Communication (Thought Transfer)
BATCHELDER, WILLIAM H. – 1966
RESEARCH IS REPORTED HERE CONCERNING THE ASSUMPTION THAT ITEMS IN A LIST MUTUALLY AFFECT EACH OTHER IN VERBAL LIST-LEARNING. THE AUTHOR CONSIDERS BOTH THE MODE OF THE DATA ANALYSIS AND THE METHOD OF S-R (STIMULUS RESPONSE) PRESENTATION FOR A NUMBER OF RESTRICTED THEORETICAL ASSUMPTIONS INVOLVING ITEM INTERACTIONS IN S-R LIST-LEARNING EXPERIMENTS.…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Educational Psychology, Learning Processes, Learning Theories
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Kjeldergaard, Paul M. – Review of Educational Research, 1961
This review of professional literature on the psychology of language summarizes and interprets selected books and articles published during the period 1957-60. The literature, selected on the basis of importance and applicability to education, is considered under the following headings: theories, research techniques, verbal learning, and…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Bibliographies, Conditioning, Electronic Equipment