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Johnson, Ronald E. – Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Verbal Learning
Johnson, Ronald E. – J Verb Learning Verb Behav, 1970
In the present study, in which narrative passages were divided into linguistic subunits and these subunits measured for their structural importance, it was determined that the structural importance of the units was related to recall. (FWB)
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Discourse Analysis, Prose, Psycholinguistics
Johnson, Ronald E.; Scheidt, Barbara J. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1977
An attempt was made to identify comparable subjective subsequences in the serial learning of a prose passage and to examine the relationship of such organizational encodings to the variable of structural importance. Results of serial learning and free recall indicated learners associatively organized individual prose subunits into subjective…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Learning Processes, Learning Theories, Memorization
Peer reviewedJohnson, Ronald E. – Review of Educational Research, 1975
The importance of the role of meaningfulness as a learning variable is discussed. (DEP)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Instructional Design, Interpretive Skills, Learning Motivation
Peer reviewedJohnson, Ronald E. – American Educational Research Journal, 1973
Research supported by a grant from the U.S. Office of Education. (DS)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Educational Psychology, Language Proficiency, Language Skills
Download full textJohnson, Ronald E. – 1970
A series of seven experiments provided information on the relationship between the learning of prose and the structural importance of the linguistic subunits. Five samples of prose, including narrative folktales and two samples of textual prose, were studied to determine whether the patterning of learning corresponded to the structural importance…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Experiments, Fiction
