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van den Bos, Kees P. – Annals of Dyslexia, 1984
Among findings from studies involving 48 9-10 year-olds classified in three dyslexic subgroups were that there were no modality of presentation-specific recall differences among groups and that all three subgroups made significantly more errors than controls in the condition in which it was essential to activate phonetic representations of…
Descriptors: Classification, Dyslexia, Elementary Education, Letters (Alphabet)
McClelland, James L. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1977
Subjects learned meanings for 16 invented words and practiced categorizing each word according to its meaning. Each word appeared consistently in either script or uppercase type. Subsequently subjects categorized words in both versions; at first, categorization was slower for unfamiliar versions. Subjects relied on both configuration information…
Descriptors: Classification, Letters (Alphabet), Memory, Orthographic Symbols
Ozier, Marcia – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 1978
Two codes that provide access to the identity of an item in memory are the initial letter of its name and the name of a category to which it belongs. This research compares the characteristics of these two modes of access to the identity of a memory trace. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Classification, Cues, Letters (Alphabet), Memory
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Clement, David E.; And Others – American Journal of Psychology, 1973
The present experiment was designed to evaluate the effects of type of similarity during a matching process for visually presented stimuli with obvious auditory properties (letters of the alphabet). (Author)
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Auditory Discrimination, Classification, Letters (Alphabet)
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Taylor, David A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 1978
This research was concerned with the way people identify and categorize letters and digits; the author attempted to answer which of these processes occurs first, with the focus on whether there is a logically determined sequence involved. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Classification, Experimental Psychology, Identification, Letters (Alphabet)
Flagg, Barbara N.; And Others – 1976
Formative research on the eye movements of children in the older age range of "Sesame Street's" target audience was conducted and results were used to answer a range of formative questions concerning television programing goals and their implementation. Forty-six low-income, black and caucasian children, ranging in age from 4.9 to 6.9…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Classification, Comprehension, Eye Movements
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Becker, Curtis A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 1979
Schuberth and Eimas (EJ 159 939) reported that context and frequency effects added to determine reaction times in a lexical decision (word v nonword) task. The present reexamination shows that context and frequency do interact, with semantic context facilitating the processing of low-frequency words more than high-frequency words. (Author/CP)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Classification, Context Clues, Higher Education
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Marmurek, Harvey H. C.; Rinaldo, Richard – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1992
Second and fourth graders and college students categorized one- and two-syllable words. Categorization response times for second graders were related to the number of letters in one-syllable words. Second and fourth graders had longer categorization times than college students for four-letter, two-syllable words. (BC)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, College Students, Elementary Education