The main purpose of the present work was to bring together methods that had generated different patterns of results in order to determine whether those differences would persist if the same subjects were performing the two types of tasks. (Author)

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)

The present research was designed to investigate the relationship between binary units of information and the subjective use made of them. (Author)

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)

This study investigated whether five year old children would show similar social class differences in coding style to those found in Heider's (1971) study of ten year old children. Middle class children used a part-descriptive coding style, whereas working class children use a whole-inferential style; the findings were congruent with those of E.…

This research forms part of a long-term program of work on the general relationship between intrapersonal stress and the development of effective cognitive processes. (Author/RK)

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)