Stimulus and response meaningfulness in paired-associate learning

The role of meaningfulness in paired-associate verbal learning.

A series of investigations (4, 5, 6, 7, 8) has been concerned with identifying and quantifying some of the variables which determine performance in verbal learning. In the first of these studies, Noble (4) developed a rational scale of meaningfulness (m) consisting of 96 dissyllabic nouns and paralogs ordered in terms of frequency of continued written associations in 60 sec. The m scale meets t...

Stimulus Pronunciability in Aural Paired-Associate

An experiment was conducted in an attempt to assess the merits of a stimulus availability interpretation of stimulus pronunciability (PR) effects in aural paired-associate learning. Stimulus PR was varied within lists of 8 trigram-adjectlve pairs. The study-test technique was used. The intra-SR interval of study trials was either 2, 4, or 6 sec, thus allowing periods of different length in whic...

THE EFFECTS OF DEGREE OF LEARNING, STIMULUS ORDER, EMPHASIS, AND MEANINGFULNESS ON CUE SELECTION IN PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING APPROVED: Major Prote^sor

Paired-associate learning, phoneme awareness, and learning to read.

We report two studies examining the relations among three paired-associate learning (PAL) tasks (visual-visual, verbal-verbal, and visual-verbal), phoneme deletion, and single-word and nonword reading ability. Correlations between the PAL tasks and reading were strongest for the visual-verbal task. Path analyses showed that both phoneme deletion and visual-verbal PAL were unique predictors of a...

A Forgetting Model for Paired-Associate Learning

This paper presents a Markov model for paired-associate learning which is based on conclusion drawn from experimental studies of short-term memory. Learning of paired-associates is considered as a decrease in the probability of forgetting an association between trials. The ability of the model to account for experimental results is demonstrated by considering data from two experiments involving...