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Direct linkBalch, William R. – Teaching of Psychology, 2015
In a classroom experiment during the first week of an introductory psychology course, randomly assigned students received a pretest and then a brief training on the definitions of general-vocabulary words either related (e.g., "facilitation") or unrelated (e.g., "rendition") to 16 technical terms (e.g., "social…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Vocabulary Skills, Jargon, Transfer of Training
