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Stillings, Neil A. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1975
A theory of comprehension in verification tasks is developed from a general conception of language comprehension. Models are developed for a task involving transfer verbs "borrow" and "loan" and the possession verb "have." Models and theoretical framework are superior in some respects to constituent comparison and conversion models. (CHK)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Experiments, Language Skills
Wiseman, Sandor; Tulving, Endel – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1975
Subjects studied and were tested for recognition and recall of target words on lists of cue-target word pairs. List-cued recall was higher than non-cued recall, suggesting that recognition failure is independent of subjects' familiarity with task requirements. This contradicts attribution of encoding specificity phenomena to subjects' confusion.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cues, Memory, Recall (Psychology)
