A STUDY OF SUBJECT-CONTROLLED PARTIAL CUEING IN PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING
Abstract
A study was performed to determine what effect, if any, a training procedure which utilized partial cueing at the option of the learner would have upon the learning of paired-associate materials. The technique was a simple one which provided partial cueing by successive revelation, upon student demand, of the letters of the 3--letter response term in an S-R pair. No instrumentation was employed; E served as the de-vice by which response components were revealed (aurally) to the student. The data showed little difference in over-all effectiveness between the partial-cueing technique and a standard anticipation procedure for learning paired associates. When the effectiveness of the two training procedures was examined with respect to ''task difficulty''--items having been dichotomized into difficult and easy, and Ss having been been dichotomized into slow learners and fast learners--the partial-cueing procedure was found to be somewhat more effective for slow learners with hard items, and slightly less effective for fast learners with easy items. This interaction was marginally significant (P < .10). The findings are discussed in relation to other studies of partial cueing in paired-associate learning. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 1961
- Accession Number
- AD0265070
Entities
People
- Arthur A. Lumsdaine
- David Angell