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Ratcliff, Roger; McKoon, Gail – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1978
An experiment is described that involved presenting sentences to the subject for study and then testing single words for recognition (the subject had to decide whether the test word was in one of the study sentences). A large priming effect was obtained. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Language Processing, Language Research
Moeser, Shannon Dawn – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 1979
The fan effect (the difficulty in retrieving any one fact after learning many about a concept) occurs only when the facts with repeated concepts are stored as independent episodes. It tells us nothing about the code formed by a pattern of interconnected concepts. (Author/CP)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Difficulty Level, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
