Results of a word association task administered to second and sixth grade children and adults suggest that whether the word association response is of the same or different form as the stimulus word is related to the word-count frequency of the stimulus and the participants age. (Author/KM)

An aptitude treatment interaction was predicted in which 30 retarded adolescents were expected to profit most from associative training and 30 intellectually average third graders most from conceptual training. Ss received either associative training designed to strengthen direct associations among pairs of conceptually related members of a free…

Evaluates the effect of E's sex on the word association and concomitant state of physiological arousal of hospitalized schizophrenic Ss. (Author/RK)

The relationship between the tendency to opposite responding on word-association tests and creativity or originality was tested in this experiment. (Author)

The relationship between cue differentiation and interference was investigated in three paired-associate recall experiments. It was concluded that discriminative coding is sufficient to eliminate interference resulting from cue confusion during associative learning, but that discriminative coding is not a necessary consequence of associative…

Argues that discoveries concerning the essential properties of whole categories of word concepts are critical to essentialist intuitions. Reviews studies demonstrating that words and concepts are not used in accordance with essentialism, concluding that since essentialism is not vindicated by ordinary word use, it fails to undermine the cognitive…

A brief survey of research on second-language (L2) vocabulary focuses on the following: knowledge of the lexicon; lexical simplification; the role of native language to L2 vocabulary development; prototypes; and vocabulary in context. (29 references) (GLR)

A study investigated the usefulness of the Fisher Association Lists, a computerized system of word associations, in accessing memories and forming new associations with them. It is concluded that the lists are a general aid to creativity by providing access to all the common associations in our culture. (MSE)

Examines ways of learning (association, correspondence, coherence, recognition) and lists three aspects of each (criterion, source of theory, nature of knower and known). Identifies each way's approach to curricular elements (education, curriculum, learner, teacher, society, and evaluation criterion). (SK)

The present experiments examined the extent to which two possible sources of error affect healthy subjects' performance in a rule-shift task. All 115 participants first received a discrimination learning task, in which a pair of different visual stimuli was presented on each trial, one of which had to be identified as "correct." Each stimulus…

Three mechanisms can explain second-order conditioning: (1) The second-order conditioned stimulus (CS2) could activate a representation of the first-order conditioned stimulus (CS1), thereby provoking the conditioned response (CR); The CS2 could enter into an excitatory association with either (2) the representation governing the CR, or (3) with a…