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Wiseman, Sandor; Tulving, Endel – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1975
Subjects studied and were tested for recognition and recall of target words on lists of cue-target word pairs. List-cued recall was higher than non-cued recall, suggesting that recognition failure is independent of subjects' familiarity with task requirements. This contradicts attribution of encoding specificity phenomena to subjects' confusion.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cues, Memory, Recall (Psychology)
Download full textNewman, Slater E.; Nicholson, Lawrence R. – 1975
Subjects were given three trials to speak and to write as fast as they could both the alphabet and a set of two-digit numbers. The speed or oral responding was approximately 6 syllables per second for letters and 7 syllables per second for digits. The speed for writing was approximately 2 items per second for both digits and letters. Correlations…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Handwriting, Memory
Drew, Clifford J.; Altman, Reuben – Psychol Rep, 1970
Descriptors: College Students, Difficulty Level, Learning Processes, Memory
Tedford, W. H., Jr.; Rose, Catherine P. – Percept Mot Skills, 1970
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Hypothesis Testing, Learning Processes
Wright, John H.; Gescheider, George A. – J Psychol, 1970
Descriptors: College Students, Learning Theories, Memory, Paired Associate Learning
Peer reviewedAbramczyk, Rudolf R. – Psychological Reports, 1971
Descriptors: Cluster Grouping, College Students, Cues, Discrimination Learning
Baller, William – Psychol Rep, 1970
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Difficulty Level
Bentley, Robert – 1977
This study examined the effects of socio-economic status (SES) and categories of learning when holding ethnicity constant. Seventy-two subjects were randomly selected from two socioeconomic levels; 36 each from middle and low socioeconomic status. Fourth and fifth grade children were used. Three hypotheses were tested: (1) positive correlations…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Blacks, Cognitive Ability, Elementary Education
Just, Marcel Adam; Carpenter, Patricia A. – 1975
This paper reports on a study concerned with rapid mental operations of the central processor as it performs tasks such as the comparison of rotated figures, mental arithmetic, sentence verification, and memory scanning. The central processor is the site of most of the symbol manipulation that takes place in the human information processing…
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes, Eye Fixations, Eye Movements
BARRITT, LOREN S. – 1968
THIS SPEECH PRESENTS THE FINDINGS OF A STUDY OF THE VERBAL RECALL ABILITY OF 102 HIGH AND LOW SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS (SES) CHILDREN IN THE PRIMARY GRADES. THE HIGH SES SUBJECTS ATTENDED A UNIVERSITY SCHOOL IN AN UPPER-MIDDLE-CLASS SUBURB, AND AT LEAST ONE OF THEIR PARENTS HAD ATTENDED COLLEGE. THE LOW SES SUBJECTS WERE IN A COMPLETELY NEGRO SUBURBAN…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Data Analysis, Experiments
Crawford, Joyce H.; Fry, Maurine A. – 1976
This study was designed to examine the effects of auditory memory, visual memory, and vocabulary knowledge on intramodal and intermodal delayed matching-to-sample tasks. A secondary objective was to assess the value of task performance and trait measures in predicting reading achievement. A total of 52 first graders were randomly selected as…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Auditory Stimuli, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education
CANDLAND, DOUGLAS K.; MANNING, SIDNEY ALPERN – 1967
FIVE EXPERIMENTS WERE CONDUCTED IN AN ATTEMPT TO ISOLATE SPECIFIC LEARNING PATTERNS IN CHILDREN OF VARYING DEGREES OF MENTAL RETARDATION AND TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE PHYLOGENETIC DEVELOPMENT OF INTELLIGENCE. FACTORS STUDIED WERE THOSE KNOWN TO INFLUENCE LEARNING IN NORMAL CHILDREN AND ADULTS--KIND OF REINFORCEMENT (VERBAL OR…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Processes, Exceptional Child Research, Females
