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Direct linkHulme, Charles; Neath, Ian; Stuart, George; Shostak, Lisa; Surprenant, Aimee M.; Brown, Gordon D. A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2006
The authors report 2 experiments that compare the serial recall of pure lists of long words, pure lists of short words, and lists of long or short words containing just a single isolated word of a different length. In both experiments for pure lists, there was a substantial recall advantage for short words; the isolated words were recalled better…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Experimental Psychology, Serial Learning, Recall (Psychology)
Peer reviewedJohnson, G. J. – Psychological Review, 1991
An associative model of serial learning is described based on the assumption that the effective stimulus for a serial-list item is generated by adaptation-level coding of the item's ordinal position. How the model can generate predictions of aspects of serial-learning data is illustrated. (SLD)
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Associative Learning, Coding, Difficulty Level
