Scored responses of 100 subjects to 30 neutral and 30 emotional words. Unique responses were prone to perseverations and reproduction faults on retest. Maudsley Personality Inventory Extraversion scores correlated with number of unique responses and perseverations elicited by neutral words. Reasons considered and it is argued that emotional…

Article examines the importance of retrieval factors in recall as well as suggesting a method which may be useful in studying within-category recall. (Author/ML)

The present study tested the feasibility of using a purely verbal recognition-memory procedure with young children and examined the role of verbal associations in the memory encoding of such children. (Author)

The effect of subject age, sex, examiner, and stimulus word differences on developmental sequences of idiodynamic set responses in children's word associations was investigated. Subjects were 100 children, ages 7-11. The findings could not be interpreted as evidence of stage progressions, or hierarchical rankings in mediational processes. (NH)

Problem readers were as competent as average readers in associating non-representational linear forms with words, but were less competent in synthesizing whole sentences from individual linear forms. (Author/WY)

Based in part on an MS thesis (Fuller), University of Massachusetts.