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Banks, William P.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 1975
This paper describes and tests a two-stage model for a "semantic congruity effect" in comparative judgments. (Editor)
Descriptors: Experimental Psychology, Flow Charts, Models, Psychological Studies

Banks, William P.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 1976
When shown a pair of digits and asked to select the larger of the two, subjects make their choice more quickly as the numerical difference between the digits increases. Presents and tests a semantic coding model that can explain this and all previous results. (Editor)
Descriptors: Experimental Psychology, Flow Charts, Information Processing, Models

Banks, William P.; Flora, Julianne – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 1977
Studies the processing of pictures and words as symbols. Shows that the superiority of pictures results from the fact that pictures are interpreted more quickly than words, but that after the interpretation is made, processing is the same. Also gives evidence that pictures and words are both processed in terms of linguistic codes rather than…
Descriptors: Experimental Psychology, Experiments, Information Processing, Research Methodology