Transfer of Imagery-Based Mnemonics by Adult Learners.

Pressley, Michael; Ahmad, Maheen

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Publication Date: 1986

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Transfer of Imagery-Based Mnemonics by Adult Learners.

Pressley, Michael; Ahmad, Maheen

Contemporary Educational Psychology, v11 n2 p150-60 Apr 1986

Hint, pegword experience, and hint plus pegword experience conditions were evaluated against three other conditions: (1) a no strategy control condition; (2) an instructional treatment to maximize elaborative strategy use; and (3) an instructional treatment to minimize elaborative strategy use. Results clarify the nature of elaborative production deficiencies. (Author/LMO)

Descriptors: Adults, Associative Learning, Context Clues, Higher Education, Learning Processes, Learning Strategies, Mnemonics, Recall (Psychology), Statistical Analysis, Transfer of Training, Vocabulary

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