First-trial guessing and verbal-discrimination learning

Discrimination learning in a verbal conditioning situation.

Unsupervised Learning of Word-Category Guessing Rules

Words unknown to the lexicon present a substantial problem to part-of-speech tagging. In this paper we present a technique for fully unsupervised statistical acquisition of rules which guess possible partsof-speech for unknown words. Three complementary sets of word-guessing rules are induced from the lexicon and a raw corpus: prefix morphological rules, suffix morphological rules and ending-gu...

Does Guessing Incorrectly Impair Fact Learning?

In learning new information through testing with feedback, is it best for the learner to guess when unsure, or does that cause errors to become engrained? On day 1, subjects learned 80 facts, and were then tested on each. When a subject reported being unable to give an informed response, on a randomly chosen half of all trials the computer insisted upon a guess and provided corrective feedback ...

Number of Alternatives and Rate of Presentation in Verbal Discrimination Learning

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Phenomenal background frequency and the concreteness/imagery effect in verbal discrimination learning.

College students gave frequency ratings for concrete and abstract words which were equated on normative frequency. The results replicated the finding of Galbraith and Underwood (1973) that abstract words are perceived to be higher in frequency than concrete words. Different subjects then learned verbal discrimination lists consisting of both abstract and concrete pairs. While the usual concrete...