The present study provided two lines of indirect support for the explanation of errors in syllogistic reasoning advanced by Chapman and Chapman (1959). (Author/RK)

The present study sought to demonstrate that under appropriate presentation conditions, presumably nonrecodable items like strings of random consonants rapidly presented a single time may be subjectively chunked to facilitate recall, the entire chunks becoming more readily accessible for retrieval than any other assemblage of the letters. (Author)

Article expressed the view that the buildup and release from proactive inhibition effects in the Brown-Peterson paradigm could be interpreted in terms of the cue-overload principle. (Author/RK)

Two studies examined the influence of a single irrelevant vocalization on verbal recall of 10-item lists. (Editor)

The present study was designed to examine several features of naive subjects' inference processes in a rule-learning task. Attention was primarily directed toward initial classification biases and the amount of transfer of learning occurring among stimuli within the same truth-table class. (Author/RK)

Unidirectional associates were used in a test of the encoding specificity principle with single items. Strong preexperimental associates were effective retrieval cues even when encoding conditions were not conducive to the establishment of a target-cue association. Results suggested that the presence of weak cues on the test reduced the…

The present experiment contrasted the effects of one and three redundant elements on recall, when the elements prefixed either the stimulus or the response. (Editor)

Recent studies by Jones (1974) have posited that accurate movements in short-term motor memory (STMM) are mediated by the subject's ability to preset effector mechanisms and monitor their efferent output. Three experiments were conducted to examine this hypothesis. (Editor)

Nine years before the publication of Ebbinghaus's classic 1885 book on memory, an American physicist, Francis E. Nipher, published brief accounts of his own investigations on this topic. These accounts are reprinted, with commentary and a brief note about Nipher. (Editor)

In a recently reported study, the functional components of imagery and vocalization strategies in children's verbal discrimination learning were examined, following the combined experimental/correlational logic of Underwood. The present research extends those results to a strategy that (unlike imagery and vocalization) has a positive influence on…

This experiment was directed at clarifying the role of verbal associative responses in stimulus recognition. The effects of both distinctive and equivalent verbal labels were assessed. (Author/RK)

Two experiments were conducted to examine the input-order effect reported by Birnbaum (1975); he demonstrated that free recall of two-digit numbers presented in natural ascending order is superior to free recall of the same numbers presented in random order. (Author/RK)

Attempts to determine whether intentional forgetting instructions influence memory when the opportunity for rehearsal is restricted and whether the intentional forgetting phenomenon could be accounted for by a selective-search hypothesis which states that memory improvement is due to a smaller search set in the cued condition relative to the…

The effects of the outcomes "right" and "wrong" upon subsequent correct responding in paired-associate learning have recently been interpreted as a function of subject's memory of previous responses and their outcomes. Tests that interpretation in two experiments of recall procedures. (Editor/RK)