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Porter, Lawrence – British Journal of Psychology, 1976
Investigates the differences between rehearsal span and memory span and evaluates the research of Dalrymple-Alford (1967) on the part of rehearsal on reinforcing memory traces. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Charts, Experiments, Information Processing, Memory
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Wright, Jon; And Others – British Journal of Psychology, 1977
These experiments attempts to confirm the selective encoding processes thought to underlie orienting tasks and to shed some light on the empirical discrepancy as to whether semantic encoding inhibits or facilitates recognition performance in general, and the identification of distractor items in particular. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Codification, Information Processing, Memory, Psychological Studies
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Hamilton, P.; And Others – British Journal of Psychology, 1972
Two experiments were performed to investigate the effects of noise-induced arousal on immediate recall of visually presented paired-associate adjectives. (Authors)
Descriptors: Arousal Patterns, Environmental Influences, Information Processing, Inhibition
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Daee, Safar; Wilding, J. M. – British Journal of Psychology, 1977
Seven experiments are described investigating the effecy of high intensity white noise during the visual presentation of words on a number of short-term memory tasks. Examines results relative to position learning and sequence learning. (Editor/RK)
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Experiments, Information Processing, Learning Processes