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Juola, James F.; McDermott, Dennis A. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1976
Reports an experiment with tasks involving memory search for a given probe word with respect to a set of semantic category labels for subjects in a word comparison task and a set of semantic category labels for subjects in the categorization task. The memory search process is fundamentally different in categorization and comparison tasks. (CLK)
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Processes, Experimental Psychology, Memory
Ehrlich, S.; Philippe, M. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1976
Reports on a study designed to show that Tulving's theory of encoding specificity and Bahrick's theory of associative continuity are not contradictory, rather complementary. (CLK)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Experimental Psychology, Memory, Recall (Psychology)
Hyde, Thomas A.; Jenkins, James J. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1973
Research supported by grants to the University of Minnesota, Center for Research in Human Learning, from the National Science Foundation, the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development, and the Graduate School of the University of Minnesota. (DD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Experiments, Language Research, Learning Theories
Pinker, Steven; Birdsong, David – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1979
Two studies elicited native speaker and nonnative speaker judgments regarding preferred word order of the idioms known as "freezes." The results support the notion that rules of frozen word order are psychologically real and reflect universal language rules. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Experimental Psychology, French, Grammar, Idioms