Part-whole transfer of a categorizable word list

Part-whole transfer of a taxonomic word list

“…The study which folIo ws was a modification of the Hudson & Davis (1970) design in an attempt to demoristrate that in free recall studies of categorizable word lists, increased recall will be a concomitant of increased E-defined organization when such organization is more efficient than other systems. The present study utilized taxonomie word lists with four words from each of 10 categories.…”

“…Psycho nornic Science , 1966,5, 37- not increase the actual number of words recalled. Hudson & Davis (1970) attempted to demonstrate positive transfer of both clustering and number of words recalled in a part-whoIe transfer paradigm using words from the Underwood & Richardson (1956) norms. They hypothesized that when the whole list consists of the part list plus additional words from eaeh category, the part-list organization would be effeetive for organizing the whole list.…”

“…Hence, in whole-list learning, the IB group should exceed the NI group in both clustering and words recalled. Hudson & Davis (1970) also included a third group [information-between (I Be )] which was given the category names prior to whole-list learning only. Any difference between this group and the NI group should re fleet effects of information per se, and any difference between the IB group and IBe group should reflect effects due to either differenees in transfer of organization or, possibly, differenees in retention.…”