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Oyler, James D.; Obrzut, John E.; Asbjornsen, Arve E. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2012
The authors of this current study compared the memory performance of adolescent students with specific reading disabilities (RD) with that of typical adolescent readers on a newly developed verbal learning test, the "Bergen-Tucson Verbal Learning Test" (BTVLT). This multiple trial test was designed to measure memory acquisition,…
Descriptors: Verbal Learning, Memorization, Reading Difficulties, Adolescents
Kunzendorf, Robert G. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1976
Under certain experimental conditions, it was affirmed more quickly that a word belonged to a large category than to a small one. This, in conjunction with other experiment results, contradicts predictions of previous theories of word meaning and supports a feature selection theory derived from Garner's critical realism position. (CHK)
Descriptors: Memory, Semantics, Statistical Analysis, Verbal Learning
Locascio, David; Ley, Ronald – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1972
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Experiments, Language Research, Reaction Time