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Sheridan, Heather; Reingold, Eyal M. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2012
The present experiments examined perceptual specificity effects using a rereading paradigm. Eye movements were monitored while participants read the same target word twice, in two different low-constraint sentence frames. The congruency of perceptual processing was manipulated by either presenting the target word in the same distortion typography…
Descriptors: Evidence, Eye Movements, Word Recognition, Word Frequency
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Spring, Carl; And Others – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1979
Determined that kindergarten children needed more trials to learn a list of similar than dissimilar words but made fewer overgeneralization errors on subsequent transfer tasks. (HOD)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Kindergarten, Paired Associate Learning, Primary Education
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Ehri, Linnea C. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1976
In a paired associate task, readers and prereaders were taught five words as oral responses, each word paired with a distinctive nonsense figure. The results raise doubts about the effectiveness of teaching beginning readers sight vocabulary words printed on flash cards. (RC)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Context Clues, Elementary Education, Paired Associate Learning
Samuels, S. Jay; Wittrock, Merlin C. – J Educ Psychol, 1969
Research supported by the Cooperative Research Program of the U.S. Office of Education, CRP-S-378.
Descriptors: Adjectives, Beginning Reading, Nouns, Paired Associate Learning
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Jenkins, Joseph R.; And Others – American Educational Research Journal, 1972
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Comparative Analysis, Graphemes, Letters (Alphabet)
BOHM, AUDREY M. – 1966
AN EXPERIMENT WAS DESIGNED TO TEST THE HYPOTHESIS THAT, WITH MATERIAL OF HIGH MEANINGFULNESS, THE SEMANTIC DIMENSION OF SYNONYMITY (BATTLE-FIGHT) WILL HAVE GREATER IMPACT ON THE LEARNING PROCESS THAN THE DIMENSION OF FORMAL SIMILARITY (BATTLE-BOTTLE). THE LEARNING MATERIALS CONSISTED OF FOUR LISTS OF 12 PAIRS OF TWO-SYLLABLE WORDS. THEY WERE…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Instructional Materials, Learning Processes, Learning Theories
Muller, Douglas G. – 1970
A major objective of this study was to seek the relationship of principles derived from traditional paired-associates transfer experiments as applied to the reading task. In this experiment 10 subjects from upper-division education courses, all volunteers, received various types of preliminary training with letter stimuli; then all subjects…
Descriptors: College Students, Communication (Thought Transfer), Education Majors, Educational Methods
Parmenter, Trevor R.; And Others – Australian Journal of Mental Retardation, 1979
A group of eight mildly intellectually handicapped adolescents at a work preparation center were taught to read two lists of words of equal difficulty by different methods--using an autoinstructional device (a 3M sound-on-slide projector) and a more traditional paired-associate method. (Author/SBH)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Autoinstructional Aids, Exceptional Child Research, Mental Retardation
Elman, Elaine – 1973
This study was designed to investigate the differences in effectiveness in teaching sight words to kindergarten children by using words only (no-picture group), words and simple pictures (simple-picture group), and words and complex pictures (complex-picture group). The subjects were 30 kindergarten children selected from two kindergarten classes.…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Kindergarten Children, Paired Associate Learning, Pictorial Stimuli