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Shoben, Edward J.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 1978
In an attempt to assess the validity of the distinction between episodic and semantic memory, this research examined the influence of two variables on sentence verification (presumably a semantic memory task) and sentence recognition (presumably an episodic memory task). ( Editor)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Experimental Psychology, Experiments, Memory
On the Relationship between Implicit and Explicit Modes in the Learning of a Complex Rule Structure.
Reber, Arthur S.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 1980
Reber found that subjects given neutral instructions to memorize letter strings from a synthetic language learned more about the underlying grammar than those instructed to try discovering the rules for letter order. Two experiments explored the relationship between implicit and explicit processes in the acquisition of complex knowledge.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Grammar, Higher Education
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
