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Reber, Arthur S. | 1 |
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Reber, Arthur S.; Allen, Rhianon – Cognition, 1978
College students learned artificial grammar under two conditions: paired associate learning (PA), and observation of exemplars (OBS). OBS induced abstract representation of the rules of grammar. PA produced very different learning--subjects knew some whole items but detected little structure. Grammar was learned largely by analogy rather than…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Grammar