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Di Vesta, Francis J. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Elementary School Students, Mediation Theory, Paired Associate Learning
Melton, Arthur W., Ed.; Martin, Edwin, Ed. – 1972
This collection of papers represents the proceedings of a research workshop on coding processes in human memory held in Massachusetts in August, 1971. The emphasis is on the contemporary issue of coding and particularly on the encoding processes at the time information is stored in memory. This volume is intended for use by research workers and…
Descriptors: Developmental Psychology, Educational Psychology, Learning, Learning Theories
McKoon, Gail; Ratcliff, Roger – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1979
Four experiments examined priming between newly learned paired associates through two procedures, lexical decision and item recognition. Results argue against a functional separation of the semantic and episodic memory systems. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Cognitive Processes, Experimental Psychology, Learning Processes
Monson, Eileen Q.; Dawis, Rene V. – 1975
Verbal analogy items, consisting of an ambiguous stimulus word pair and two unambiguous response word pairs as choice alternatives, were presented to psychology students in a counterbalanced design to discover if preferences existed between the two competing relations in each item. The data were analyzed to see if these preferences ordered…
Descriptors: Analogy, Association Measures, Association (Psychology), Comprehension
Levin, Joel R.; Horvitz, James M. – 1970
The role of meaning in the learning of verbally presented paired associates (PAs) is described by means of an experiment with a replication. A printed PA list containing six different types of items was presented to Sixth Graders. Four of the item types consisted of sentence-embedded PAs on the study trials, followed by test trial cues varying in…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Educational Research, Elementary School Students, Learning Processes
Kasschau, Richard A. – 1970
The research reported here was directed at two distinct but related problems: (1) the assumption of bipolarity underlying standard semantic differential scales, and (2) the demonstration of the similarities between D-4 (the square root of the sum of squares of the difference between each word's mean rating and 4.00 on a number of scales) as a…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Association (Psychology), Cognitive Processes, Experimental Psychology