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Cumming, John M.; De Miranda, Michael A. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2012
Retroactive interference (RI) in list learning occurs when the learning of a second list of words interferes with the recall of the first learned list. Having the lists be thematically different can reduce retroactive interference within list learning; however, this study demonstrates how RI can be reduced when the lists contain similar words.…
Descriptors: Memory, Word Lists, Interference (Learning), Cognitive Processes
MCLEOD, JOHN – 1967
THE ABILITY OF SECOND GRADERS TO PRODUCE TACHISTOSCOPICALLY PRESENTED LETTER SEQUENCES AND DISCRIMINATE AND VOCALLY REPRODUCE AUDITORILY PRESENTED WORDS WAS STUDIED IN THREE EXPERIMENTS. THE READING DISABILITY GROUP WAS FOUND TO BE SIGNIFICANTLY AND CONSISTENTLY INFERIOR TO THE CONTROL GROUP IN REPRODUCING THE VISUALLY PRESENTED LETTER SEQUENCES…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Grade 2, Reading Difficulties, Reading Research