The Effects of Meaningfulness and Repeated List Items on Vermal Discrimination Learning of Nouns
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Ralston, Margaret Elaine
Issue Date
1968
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Thesis
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en_US
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40 Kalamazoo College students naive to verbal learning experiments
participated in two experiments. Each subject learned a mixed list
of sixteen verbal discrimination pairs of nouns to a criterion of
two perfect successive trials or until ten trials were completed.
In Experiment I m of the correct and incorrect items was varied.
The conditions were: lo-hiC, lo-loC, hi-hiC, and hi-loC. The
results indicated that lo m of incorrect items was more important
than m of the other items. In Experiment II m of the incorrect
items and m of repeated items were varied. Performance was faster
in the conditions in which the repeated items were incorrect.
The conditions with the incorrect item listed first were: lo-hiR,
hi-loR, hiR-Io, and loR-hi. The hypothesis that meaningfulness has
no effect on VDL was rejected. The hypothesis that meaningfulness
has no effect on VDL with repeated list items was also rejected.
The results were interpreted in terms of a revision of the frequency
theory of verbal discrimination learning.
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vi, 19 p.
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