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Moeser, Shannon D.; Tarrant, Barbara L. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 1977
Using a network of comparisons, B. Hayes-Roth and F. Hayes-Roth found that subjects performed better on adjacent than on nonadjacent comparisons. Results suggested that such networks are processed in a manner fundamentally different from simple linear arrays. Here subjects were required to learn a similar knowledge structure. These results…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Experimental Psychology, Experiments, Learning Processes
Mayer, Richard E. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 1978
This research investigates whether subjects who receive the premises for a linear ordering in story format acquire a different memory structure and use a different solution algorithm than subjects who receive the same premises in equation format. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Algorithms, Cognitive Processes, Experimental Psychology, Experiments


