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Underwood, Benton J.; Zimmerman, Joel – 1973
The central question of this report concerned the role of formal similarity in free recall of lists of trigrams and lists of three-letter word triads. Similarity was manipulated among trigrams by duplicating words. An initial study showed that lists of 16 letters were learned more rapidly than a list of 16 three-letter words. Therefore, in the…
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes, College Students
Bean, Joan P.; Rohwer, William D., Jr. – 1969
The purpose of the document is to assess facilitating and interfering effects of various strategies in samples of children from elementary and high school grade levels. Participating in the paired-associate study were 160 children, 40 each from first, third, sixth, and eleventh grades. Subjects were required to learn a 36-item aurally presented…
Descriptors: Association Measures, Associative Learning, Behavior, Conditioning