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McFarland, Carl E., Jr.; And Others – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1979
Reports on two experiments conducted to test the hypothesis that the spacing effect in free recall results from greater semantic-feature variability across distributed repetitions than massed repetition. (AM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Experimental Psychology, Psychological Studies, Recall (Psychology)
Dewing, Kathleen; Hetherington, Paul – Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1974
The aim of the present study was to extend the findings relating to the role of imagery in verbal learning and retrieval to the solution of anagrams. (Author)
Descriptors: College Students, Experimental Psychology, Imagery, Psychological Studies
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
Huttenlocher, Janellen; Lui, Felicia – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1979
Reports on experiments examining the semantic organization of concrete nouns and verbs and its development in childhood. Differences in semantic organization are said to be a clue to age-related changes in performance with verbs. (AM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Experimental Psychology, Language Acquisition
Download full textKasschau, 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
