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Arbuckle, Tannis Y. – Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1974
Two experiments compared concrete nouns and numbers as retrieval cues for paired associates across three recall tests with Ss given instructions to form unbiased mnemonics, mnemonics biased toward the noun, mnemonics biased toward the number, or control instructions. (Editor)
Descriptors: Cues, Experimental Psychology, Memory, Paired Associate Learning
Homa, Donald; Spieker, Susan – Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1974
An assessment of selective search as an explanation for intentional forgetting was investigated by measuring reaction time (RT) in paired-associate lists of varying length. (Editor)
Descriptors: Cues, Diagrams, Experimental Psychology, Information Retrieval
Peer reviewedRichardson, Jack – American Journal of Psychology, 1976
The evidence from studies of component selection in paired-associate learning is reviewed and then considered in relation to Martin's (1968) hypothesis of encoding variability and Rudy's (1974) model of variations in the associative process. Component-selection tasks are also compared to verbal concept-formation tasks. (Editor)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Cues, Learning Theories, Memory
Berry, Franklin M.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1973
The present experiment was designed to give attention to a potentially important parameter, that of paired-associate task modality. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Association (Psychology), Cues, Factor Analysis
