Proactive interference (PI) that remains unidentified can confound the assessment of verbal learning, particularly when its effects vary from one population to another. The International Shopping List Task (ISLT) is a new measure that provides multiple forms that can be equated for linguistic factors across cultural groups. The aim of this study was to examine the build-up of PI on two measures...

Learners bring their unique individual perceptions, preferences, and abilities to a learning situation. The effect of individual differences on learning depends in part on how the instructional system accommodates for these differences. The current study examined the role of individual differences and structured navigation in hypertext learning. It was predicted that learning outcome would depe...

The studies investigated if advance organizer learning will facilitate learning of some selected Government concepts among senior secondary school students in Oyo State, Nigeria. The study assessed the differences in the academic performances from low, middle, and high socio-economic backgrounds of students after they have been exposed to advance organizers learning strategy. The design for the...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the relative proportion of genetic and environmental contributions to verbal memory in community-dwelling World War II veteran twins. DESIGN The California Verbal Learning Test (CVLT) was administered to 94 monozygotic (MZ) and 89 dizygotic (DZ) elderly male twin pair participants in the fourth examination of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Twin Study. ...

Mental images constructed after visual examination of a spatial configuration or after processing a verbal description of that configuration have been shown to share similar properties, in particular the capacity to preserve metric information contained in the configuration represented. In the present study, we investigated the properties of mental images constructed under learning conditions r...

Research under the paradigm of the label feedback hypothesis has proposed a causal role for verbal labels in the online learning and processing of categories. Labeled categories are learned faster, and are subsequently more robust. The present study extends this research paradigm by considering the relationship between verbal labels and flexible categorization. Flexibility is a key trait of hum...