This Study Was Designed to Test the Hypothesis That Associatively Related Nouns Embedded in Connected Discourse--at Least in the Case of Items That Appear in Ne Same or in Contiguous Sentences-are Stored More Efficiently

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  • Sheldon Rosenberg
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. THIS STUDY WAS DESIGNED TO TEST THE HYPOTHESIS THAT ASSOCIATIVELY RELATED NOUNS EMBEDDED IN CONNECTED DISCOURSE--AT LEAST IN THE CASE OF ITEMS THAT APPEAR IN NE SAME OR IN CONTIGUOUS SENTENCES-ARE STORED MORE EFFICIENTLY THAN ASSOCIATIVELY UNRELATED NOUNS. A 2X2 FACTORIAL DESIGN WAS EMPLOYED (WITH 20 SS IN EACH GROUP) IN WHICH SS VERE ASKED TO MEMORIZE A PASSAGE THAT CONTAINED 14 GROUPS OF FOUR ASSOCIATIVELY RELATED NOUNS OR A PASSAGE THAT CONTAINED 14 GROUPS OF FOUR ASSOCIATIVELY UNRELATED NOUNS. AFTER A SINGLE EXPOSURE TO A PASSAGE, RETRIEVAL WAS TESTED BY A WRITTEN

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تاریخ انتشار 2007