Effect of number of choices per unit of a verbal maze on learning and serial position errors.

Brogden, W. J.; Schmidt, Robert E.

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“…investigated the effect of doublet location within the verbal maze pattern on its acquisition and the form of the serial position error curves. The 16-unit 4-choice pattern of Brogden and Schmidt (1954) was modified by locating doublets (two successive like responses) at Units 2 and 3, 5 and 6, 8 and 9, 11 and 12, and 14 and 15, respectively, for the five experimental groups. The serial position curves of the difference in errors between each experimental group and the control group show a doublet effect of a significant increase in errors for the second item.…”

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Relation of serial position errors to doublet and split-doublet location in verbal maze pattern.

Rl¹,

Dr²,

Seidenstein³

et al. 1960

Journal of Experimental Psychology

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Relation of serial position errors to doublet and split-doublet location in verbal maze pattern.

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Seidenstein³

et al. 1960

Journal of Experimental Psychology

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“…There is, however, no reason why the recognition and correction techniques could not be applied in the context of a task in which the occurrence of associative learning is clear. This has already been done with a serial learning procedure by Brogden andSchmidt (1954a, 1954b). Riley (1952) has used sets of response alternatives in a paired-associates task, and although he allowed only one response to each stimulus, his technique could readily be extended to employ repeated guessing.…”

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One-trial learning directly observed.

Teghtsoonian¹

1964

Canadian Journal of Psychology / Revue canadienne de psychologi

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Ss learned 12 three-digit numbers in the context of a recognition task using a correction method. The order of the correct items, their spatial location in the displays of alternatives, and the identities of the incorrect alternatives were all random over trials. For each S comparisons were made of the number of errors occurring on the trials just preceding and on those just following the first errorless trial. This analysis was performed for each of the 12 items and medians were reported to represent each S's typical performance. The sudden and sharp drop in the number of errors at the critical trial was construed as evidence of one-trial learning. Several aspects of the procedure were cited as potentially important to the form of the results. A NUMBER OF STUDIES have been reported showing evidence that verbal

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“…The third variable which may determine the magnitude of S-R similarity effects is the predictability of 107 the repeated element(s). Several experiments (e.g., Brogden & Schmidt, 1954) have shown that task difficulty increases as the degree of response uncertainty increases. In the case of intrapair S-R similarity, response uncertainty is determined, in part, by the predictability of the location in the stimulus and response terms of the repeated element (s).…”

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Paired-associate acquistion: Some effects of inter- and intrapair similarity.

Thompson¹,

Fritzler²

1968

Journal of Experimental Psychology

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A substantial increase or decrease, relative to a control condition, in rate of acquisition of a paired-associate list was demonstrated when formal similarity between stimulus and response items was located within and between pairs, respectively. In addition, the results show that the effect of formal intrapair similarity can be modified by the predictability of the repeated letter. The location of the within-pair repeated letter does not affect the total number of errors but it does affect the distribution of the types of errors made by S.

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Effect of number of choices per unit of a verbal maze on learning and serial position errors.

Cited by 16 publications

References 3 publications

Relation of serial position errors to doublet and split-doublet location in verbal maze pattern.

Relation of serial position errors to doublet and split-doublet location in verbal maze pattern.

One-trial learning directly observed.

Paired-associate acquistion: Some effects of inter- and intrapair similarity.

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