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Peer reviewedRunquist, Willard N.; Maki, Judith – American Journal of Psychology, 1976
When subjects learned paired associates that, on the study trials, consisted of a stimulus (cue) and its correct (target) response plus two other (distractor) responses from within the list, the presence of the distractor items interfered with learning, especially when overtly pronounced as opposed to silently studied. (Editor)
Descriptors: Cues, Experiments, Information Processing, Learning Processes
Peer reviewedRunquist, Willard N.; Runquist, Peggy A. – American Journal of Psychology, 1976
This experiment demonstrated that people can utilize relative situational frequency of occurrence to differentiate similary categorizable target items in paired-associate learning. (Editor)
Descriptors: Charts, Classification, Learning Processes, Paired Associate Learning
