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Potts, George R. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1977
This study examines the processes whereby new information is integrated with generalized world knowledge. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Deduction, Knowledge Level
Gardiner, John M.; Klee, Hilary – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1976
A study is reported describing an output-monitoring phenomenon in free recall and establishing that subjects have accurate knowledge concerning their previous output performance. Implications with respect to other known memory phenomena are discussed. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Language Research, Learning Processes
MacKay, Donald G. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1976
A study is described which examined the retrieval of regular and irregular past tense verbs. Results suggested that preterites such as "taught" are not stored as separate and independent lexical units but are formed from the verb stem by means of derivational rules. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Grammar
Royer, James M.; Cable, Glenn W. – 1974
The purpose of the experiment was to test the prediction that non-specific facilitated learning of a second prose passage will occur in the situation where an initial passage read by the subjects contained concrete referents designed to increase the comprehension of a difficult to understand second passage. Two-hundred and forty subjects…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, College Students, Connected Discourse, Higher Education
Palermo, David S. – 1965
Free-association norms for 200 words were obtained in 1964 from the responses of 500 subjects in each of grades four through eight, 10, and 12 and from 1,000 college students. An analysis of this normative data revealed that (1) the frequency of occurrence of the most popular associative responses to stimulus words increases with the age of the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Association (Psychology), Associative Learning, Children
Diptoadi, Veronica L. – 1991
An Indonesian study on prereading strategies for reading in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) is reported. Three areas were examined: (1) differences in the reading achievement of groups receiving AO ("advance organizer" or meaningful verbal learning, based on the learning theory of David Ausubel) techniques or "Daftar Kata-Kata…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Field Dependence Independence
Johnson, Ronald E. – 1970
A series of seven experiments provided information on the relationship between the learning of prose and the structural importance of the linguistic subunits. Five samples of prose, including narrative folktales and two samples of textual prose, were studied to determine whether the patterning of learning corresponded to the structural importance…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Experiments, Fiction