Research indicates that evaluative (emotional) word meaning and denotative meaning (imagery) are distinct mediational mechanisms and can be conditioned. It is hypothesized that the meaning responses can be conditioned concurrently and independently. (Editor/RK)

This study explored the extent and accuracy of the subject's knowledge of his previous recall performance as a function of response mode and response-produced feedback. In free recall trials, subjects responded orally, in writing, or in both oral and written modes. Accuracy of later recall or responses was measured. (CHK)

The effect of a classification, or encoding, task on intentional free recall was examined. Examination of the serial position curves for immediate and free recall shows clear effects assigned to long-term store. Consideration of effects regarding levels of processing gives a parallel account differing only in terminology and emphasis. (CHK)

Examines the association between young children's analogical reasoning ability and their mathematical learning. Records and analyzes children's nonverbal behaviors and their private and social speech. Concludes that analogical reasoning is significantly related to mathematical learning and children's scores on the measure of mathematical learning,…

This study examined conceptual relationships in semantic memory using an indirect priming technique in high-functioning autistic adolescents and controls. The autistic subjects and controls showed similar semantic priming effects. However, correlations with nonverbal cognitive measures for the autistic subjects suggests that semantic processing in…

The subjects in two experiments learned either two successive unrelated verbal-discrimination or paired-associate tasks, with anticipation and feedback durations factorially combined (2 or 4sec). (Editor)

This paper evaluates associative theories of sentence memory, based on the model of J.R. Anderson and G.H. Bower. A model of Human Associative Memory (HAM) is generalized and defined, and alternative models incorporating configural information are presented. (CK)

The presence of questions improved retention for material directly related to the questions but not for incidental information, and their presence had no effect on the amount of retroactive inhibition. (Author)

Analyzes free recall verbal learning by 5- and 8-year-old children by selectively reminding them only of items not recalled on the preceding trial to show learning by retrieval from long-term storage without presentation. (Author/ED)

ULTIMATE OBJECTIVE OF THIS STUDY IS A SYSTEM IN WHICH INSTRUCTORS MAY IDENTIFY RELEVANT AUDIENCE CHARACTERISTICS AND THEN DESIGN A PROGRAM TO OPTIMIZE LEARNING. MULTIPLE REGRESSION, FACTOR ANALYSIS, AND CROSS-VALIDATING PROCEDURES WERE USED TO ASSESS THE IMMEDIATE AND DELAYED LEARNING EFFECTS OF PROGRAMMED INSTRUCTION. INDEPENDENT VARIABLES…

TWO GROUPS OF SUBJECTS, DESIGNATED PACED AND UNPACED, WERE USED TO DETERMINE WHETHER SELF-PACING IS ADVANTAGEOUS OR NECESSARY IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF EFFICIENT TECHNIQUES OF MEMORIZING. EACH GROUP LEARNED 8 LISTS OF 25 WORDS EACH, 2 LISTS PER SESSION. AT THE FIFTH SESSION, THE PACED GROUP LEARNED TWO ADDITIONAL LISTS UNDER SELF-PACED CONDITIONS.…

This report attempts to determine to what extent the thesis that observation is theory-dependent holds in the area of verbal learning theory. This area was chosen because: (1) a philosophical criticism of verbal learning theory will contribute to the difficult task of investigating the border area between philosophy and psychology; and (2) no one…

The purpose of this experiment was to determine whether a constant information processing rate would occur when subjects in verbal discrimination (VD) learning were presented a mixture of items of different lengths. Forty-two Naval Postgraduate School students served in a VD experiment with a random mixture of two-, three-, and four-word items at…

A total of 48 fifth-grade and 30 nursery-school subjects were administered picture pairs in a discrimination learning experiment. In addition to a control group, one group of subjects (pre-choice) was instructed to pronounce both items before choosing one, and another group (post-choice) was told to say both items after choosing one. The…

Eye movement analysis should provide a basis for differentiation of humans in terms of developed preference for certain kinds of visual presentations over other kinds. A study was conducted to examine this position. A total of 40 children from grades 8 through 12 participated as subjects. Each subject was presented with a synchronous audio-visual…