The role of meaningfulness in paired-associate verbal learning.

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

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This research on factors influencing verbal learning and retention has used new techniques, attacked new problems, and tested new thecties while trying to keep the experiments systematic. Studies conducted involved (1) the effect of varying the length cf the intertrial interval on the learning and retention of different types of learning tasks; (2) differences in recall between massed repetitio...

Effects of Meaningfulness of Relevant and Irrelevant Stimuli in a Modified Concept Formation Task

Meaningfulness (m) of component stimuli was manipulated in a modified compound-stimulus paired-associate task. Stimuli consisted of two CVC syllables, with one being relevant in that it was consistently paired with a number response, and the other being irrelevant in that it was paired equally often with each relevant syllable, and hence with each number response. The 5" was required to identif...

Memory encoding following complete callosotomy.

Three patients with complete resection of the corpus callosum were tested in a series of memory tasks to determine the effects of callosotomy on the encoding and retrieval of information in memory. Verbal and pictorial conjunction tests were administered to measure patients' ability to consolidate the elements of a stimulus into an accurate composite memory. Patients were also tested in a paire...

A stage analysis of paired-associate learning is one step in the direction of trying to localize the effects of E-I. Many researchers interested in the relationship of personality variables to verbal learning tasks are in essential agreement concerning the research