PAIRED-ASSOCIATES LEARNING UNDER VARIATIONS IN OCCURRENCES OF RESPONSE MEMBERS

Abstract

Experiments, normative assessments, and orientation-review-theory on or preparatory to acquisition and post-acquisition phenomena with conventional and divergent paired-associates (PA) situations are summarized. The variables of particular concern are variations in occurrences of response members, specifically percentage of occurrence with the conventional PA situation and relative percentage of occurrence with the divergent PA situation. Among the additional variables of one or more experiments are the stimulus characteristics of meaningfulness and similarity, and initial strength and derived patterns of relationships between stimulus and response members. The normative assessments with a variety of verbal stimuli are designed to provide data that permit more precise and more complete specification of initial reactions to members of PA units both discretely and in relation to each other. On occasion, these experiments and assessments, along with such contributions by others, are summarized, evaluated, and extended in items labeled orientation-review-theory.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 15, 1967
Accession Number
AD0663573

Entities

People

  • Albert E. Goss

Organizations

  • University of Massachusetts Amherst

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Acquisition
  • Concept Formation
  • Frequency
  • Health Services
  • Hierarchies
  • Instructions
  • Learning
  • Materials
  • Military Research
  • Navy
  • New York
  • Orientation (Direction)
  • Probability
  • Psychology
  • Standards
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

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  • Brain and Cognitive Science; Experimental Psychology; Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Systems Analysis and Design