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Peterson, Daniel J.; Mulligan, Neil W. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2012
One of the foundational principles of human memory is that repetition (i.e., being presented with a stimulus multiple times) improves recall. In the current study a group of participants who studied a list of cue-target pairs twice recalled fewer targets than a group who studied the pairs only once, a negative repetition effect. Such a…
Descriptors: Memory, Testing, Repetition, Stimuli
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Runquist, Willard N.; Runquist, Peggy A. – American Journal of Psychology, 1976
This experiment demonstrated that people can utilize relative situational frequency of occurrence to differentiate similary categorizable target items in paired-associate learning. (Editor)
Descriptors: Charts, Classification, Learning Processes, Paired Associate Learning
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Howe, Mark L.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1985
Reported an experiment on the effects of taxonomic organization on 7- and 11-year-olds' free and cued recall of two- and four-category lists. Analysis used a stages-of-learning model that simultaneously delivered estimates of the impact of these manipulations on storage and retrieval components of recall. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, Cues, Encoding (Psychology)