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Pressley, Michael; Levin, Joel R. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 1981
College students learned English vocabulary words using a keyword or no-strategy control technique. The keyword technique did not enhance recall of the actual vocabulary word when the definition was given unless the vocabulary word per se was integrated in memory before presentation of vocabulary word-definition pairings. (Author/RD)
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