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Download full textKOPLIN, JAMES H.; NUNNALLY, JUM C. – 1967
THE PURPOSE OF THIS RESEARCH WAS TO EXAMINE THE EFFECTS OF SEVERAL MEASURES OF WORD-RELATEDNESS ON SEVERAL VERBAL LEARNING TASKS--PRIMARILY PAIRED-ASSOCIATES LEARNING AND VERBAL DISCRIMINATION LEARNING, WITH INCIDENTAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO FREE RECALL AND SEMANTIC GENERALIZATION. THE STRATEGY WAS TO SELECT A SAMPLE OF WORD PAIRS (240 COMMON NOUNS…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Experiments, Learning, Paired Associate Learning
Peer reviewedWicker, Frank W. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Memory, Paired Associate Learning, Performance Factors
Peer reviewedCox, William F., Jr. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1978
To detect the underlying structural relationship or chain among certain memorized pairs, two groups of undergraduates verbally reordered previously memorized pairs of either concrete or abstract nouns. The superior performance of the concrete word subjects was attributed to the differential effect of imaginal versus verbal encoding. (Author/CP)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Difficulty Level, Higher Education, Memorization
