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Download full textUnderwood, 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
Peer reviewedEisenberg, Peter; Becker, Curtis A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 1982
Individual differences in context effects both in a word-level task and in a sentence-level task were found to be related to individual differences in reading continuous text. These results are presented within the framework of a verification model, and the implications for two-process theory are discussed. (Author/PN)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Attention, Context Clues, Interference (Language)
