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Download full textHofacker, Charles F. – 1983
Recently, confirmatory factor analysis has been extended to the case of dichotomous data (e.g., Muthen, 1978). In this study, confirmatory factor analysis was applied to all-or-none recall data from a designed experiment. In the experiment, subjects read pairs of English nouns and then tried to recall the right hand member of the pair when…
Descriptors: Data, Factor Analysis, Higher Education, Long Term Memory
Peer reviewedPurdy, Jesse E.; Luepnitz, Roy R. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1982
Sixty-four subjects were presented pictures and later asked to draw them or provide one-word descriptions to test the hypothesis that decreased retention effectiveness occurs because images stored in long-term memory are accessible only through their verbal labels. Recall of pictures was significantly greater than recall of words. (Author/PN)
Descriptors: Adults, Higher Education, Long Term Memory, Paired Associate Learning
