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Correlation of Paired-Associate Performance with School Achievement as a Function of Task Abstractness
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Feldman; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1972
School achievement was positively related to performance on the abstract task and was generally unrelated to performance on the concrete task. (Authors)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Academic Achievement, Elementary School Students, Paired Associate Learning
Stimulus Recognition and Associative Coding
Runquist, Willard N.; Evans, Annabel – Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1972
Purpose of this experiment was to investigate the relationship between stimulus recognition and various learning conditions which were designed to affect both stimulus encoding and associative learning in a paired-associate task. (Authors)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Paired Associate Learning, Performance Factors, Recall (Psychology)
Sentence Contexts as Facilitators of Noun Pair Learning in Children
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Ehri, Linnea C. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1972
Results indicated that variations in deep structure grammatical relations but not surface structure complexity influenced noun pair retrieval. (Author)
Descriptors: Context Clues, Grade 5, Nouns, Paired Associate Learning
Elaboration Structure and List Length Effects on Verbal Elaboration Phenomena
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Thurlow, Martha L.; Turnure, James E. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1972
Study investigated the effects of task difficulty on the paired-associate learning of retardates when extended elaboration conditions are employed. (Authors)
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Mild Mental Retardation, Paired Associate Learning, Recall (Psychology)
Verbal Recall as a Function of Personality Characteristics
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Fisher, Dennis F.; Keen, Susan P. – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1972
Results failed to confirm the findings of previous investigators, which showed anal retentives to be superior in verbal recall. (Authors)
Descriptors: Mediation Theory, Paired Associate Learning, Personality, Psychological Studies
Long-Term Retention After Acquisition Under Different Conditions of Practice
Zacks, Rose T. – Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1972
Findings showed that the different conditions of acquisition produce equivalent long-term retention. (Author/MB)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Learning Processes, Paired Associate Learning, Recall (Psychology)