This study investigated the use readers make of visual and verbal illustration to understand and remember what they have read. Specific focus was placed on readers' use of pictures and analogies to understand and remember written directions for a spatial manipulation task. The independent variables measured were type of text, mode of illustration,…

A discussion of the problem of how it is possible for a verbal student to learn from a computer unless the machine can partially understand his language. (Author)

The implications for education are discussed in an experiment that measured student desire to achieve either at a high or low standard in the classroom. (Editor/RK)

Examines the inhibition of recall of list items when extralist items are introduced, and describes experiments which suggest that this is an expression of a more general inhibition phenomenon. (Author/AM)

Subjects were asked to encode and recall lists of words under the influences of marijuana and a marijuana placebo. Free recall was more complete when both encoding and recall were after marijuana use than in the encode-marijuana, recall-placebo state. Recall must depend on restoration of dissociated encoding state. (CHK)

This study attempted to determine the functional components of rehearsal strategies in children's discrimination learning. When a discrimination list was given without rehearsal instructions, ability to discriminate situational frequencies predicted performance. Without rehearsal strategy, subjects' ability to discriminate between previous usage…

Based on a master's thesis submitted to Northwestern University. Presented in part at Western Psychological Association meetings (San Francisco, May 5, 1967).

LISTS OF HIGH ASSOCIATION AND LOW ASSOCIATION SENTENCES WERE PREPARED FROM CONTROLLED ASSOCIATION NORMS. AN INTRA-LIST INTERFERENCE CONDITION WAS CREATED FOR HIGH ASSOCIATION SENTENCES BY PAIRING THE NOUN PHRASE OF ONE SENTENCE WITH THE VERB PHRASE OF ANOTHER SENTENCE IN THE SAME LIST. A SIMILAR PROCEDURE WAS FOLLOWED WITH THE LOW ASSOCIATION…

STUDY WAS MADE OF THE VERBAL PERFORMANCE OF TEACHERS AND STUDENTS IN ORDER TO ASSESS THE QUALITY OF THINKING THAT IS ELICITED AND EXPRESSED IN THE COURSE AND CONTENT OF CLASSROOM OPERATION. TECHNIQUES OF RECORDING AND THEN OF MARKING AND CLASSIFYING WHAT MEMORY, CONVERGENT THINKING, EVALUATIVE THINKING, DIVERGENT THINKING, AND ROUTINE, AND THEIR…

AN EXTENSIVE STUDY WAS MADE OF PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING IN CHILDREN WITH NORMAL HEARING AND WITH SEVERE HEARING LOSSES IN WHICH THE MATERIAL HAS BEEN PRESENTED AUDITORILY, VISUALLY AND AUDIOVISUALLY AND IN WHICH MEANINGFULNESS AND VERBALNESS HAVE BEEN VARIED. THE CONCLUSION WHICH EMERGES IS THAT "MEANINGFULNESS" IS THE MOST IMPORTANT…

THE REINFORCING EFFECTS OF DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTAL CONTINGENCIES, IN WHICH A VERBAL LEARNING TASK WAS PRESENTED, WERE TESTED. THE LEARNING TASK INVOLVED A SIMULATION OF THE PROCESS BY WHICH THE PUPIL APPROACHES BEGINNING READING THROUGH THE ACQUISITION OF A BASIC SIGHT VOCABULARY. THE CRITERION FOR MEASURING DIFFERENTIAL EFFECT WAS ESTABLISHED AS…