Retention-Task Carryover Effects after Verbal-Discrimination Learning

Verbal discrimination learning: A review of the acquisition, transfer, and retention literature through 1972.

“…Moreover, it is assumed that the first-list context-item associations initially compete with the acquisition of the corresponding transfer list context-item associations and extinguish during the course of transfer list learning in a fashion comparable to the specific associations of the A-B, A-C paired-associate transfer paradigm. The retention data, indicating less retention of first-list items following W 2 -R 2 learning than the appropriate control groups, (Kanak & Curtis, 1970) are in complete accord with this explanation as are more recent data from three experiments reported by Kanak, Cole, and Curtis (1972).…”

The associative interference hypothesis in verbal discrimination transfer: Reply to Paul.

“…It has been well demonstrated that verbal discrimination transfer tasks, like pairedassociate tasks (McGovern, 1964), allow the development of associations between the environmental context of the task and the intrapair W and R items (Kanak, Cole, & Curtis, 1972;Kanak & Curtis, 1970). The common learning context for List 1 and List 2 will be called C. Associations are incidentally formed between C and Wi and C and Rt during List 1 learning.…”