Anticipatory Place-Skipping Tendencies in the Memorization of Numbers

An inquiry into the doctrine of remote associations.

“…Studies by Lumley (1932), Mitchell (1934), andBugelski (1950) are representative of the use of this method, and their major findings may be summarized as follows: (a) anticipatory errors are much more frequent than perseverative errors, (fr) frequency of such errors is inversely related to their degree of remoteness, even when corrected for opportunity of occurrence, and (c) as learning progresses, the number of far remote associations declines both absolutely and in proportion to the number of near remote assocations.…”

Intraserial inhibition as measured by reproduction.

“…Mitchell (10,11) and Schmeidler (15) have also performed experiments related to the present investigation, but in both instances the number of subjects was inadequate. Mitchell, using numbers, found a 'form of retroactive inhibition within the list.'…”

A remote association explanation of the relative difficulty of learning nonsense syllables in a serial list.

“…In view of the above considerations it was felt that a fresh approach to the problem was called for inasmuch as the conclusions of Raskin and Cook challenged the earlier findings of Hall (2), Mitchell (14), and Lumley (n). The evidence for a remote association gradient is, at present, sketchy.…”