Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover; Paired-Associates Learning: The Role of Meaningfulness, Similarity, and Familiarization; Copyright Page; Preface; Acknowledgment; Table of Contents; Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION; Rationale and General Objectives; Subsequent Chapters; Designs of Experiments; Abbreviations; Chapter 2. SCALINGS OF MEANINGFULNESS; Techniques; Results; Further Areas for Research; Chapter 3. MEANINGFULNESS IN PAIRED-ASSOCIATES LEARNING; Construction and Use of Lists; Results; Chapter 4. THEORETICAL ANALYSES; Overview and Specific Analyses; Approaches; Chapter 5. SIMILARITY; Scalings
  • Effects of Similarity on Acquisition and Backward RecallChapter 6. FAMILIARIZATION; Techniques; Familiarization and Transfer; Effects of Familiarization; Chapter 7. MEANING AND ASSOCIATION; Acquired-Distinctiveness Training; Induction of Meaning and Meaningfulness; Response-Mediated Associations; Number of and Association among Elements; Summary; Chapter 8. SUMMARY, SIGNIFICANCE, AND SUGGESTIONS; Summary; Theoretical Analyses and Significance of Empirical Findings and Conclusions; Suggestions; APPENDIX
  • Experiment 1. Acquisition and Retention of Unmixed Lists as Functions of Similarity of Stimulus Members, Meaningfulness and Similarity of Response Members, and %ORMExperiment 2 . Acquisition of Unmixed Lists Administered to Subjects in Groups as Functions of Meaningfulness and Similarity of Stimulus and Response Members and of %ORM; Experiment 3. Acquisition of Unmixed Lists Administered to Subjects in Groups as Functions of Meaningfulness and Similarity of Stimulus and Response Members, Familiarization of Response Members, and %ORM
  • Experiment 4. Acquisition of Unmixed Lists Administered to Subjects in Groups as Functions of Meaningfulness of Stimulus and Response Members and of Similarity of Meaning-Ease of Learning of Pairs of StimuliExperiment 5. Acquisition of Partly Mixed Lists Administered to Subjects in Groups as Functions of Meaningfulness-Similarity of Stimulus Members and Meaningfulness and Similarity of Response Members; Experiment 6. Acquisition of Partly Mixed Lists Administered to Subjects in Groups as Functions of Meaningfulness, Similarity, and Familiarization of Stimulus and Response Members
  • Experiment 7. Acquisition of Unmixed Lists Presented under Recall and Anticipation Formats as Functions of Meaningfulness of Stimulus and Response MembersExperiment 8. Acquisition of Unmixed Lists Presented under Recall and Anticipation Formats as Functions of Similarity of Stimulus and Response Members; Experiment 9. Acquisition of Mixed Lists Presented under Recall and Anticipation Formats as Functions of Meaningfulness of Stimulus and Response Members, Length of List, and Whole or Part-Whole Presentation