Frequency and coding responses in verbal discrimination learning
- 1 January 1974
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Memory & Cognition
- Vol. 2 (1) , 11-13
- https://doi.org/10.3758/bf03197484
Abstract
Ss were given a verbal discrimination task where correct and incorrect stimuli appeared in one, two. or four different pairs in a within-Ss design. For a group tested with the usual anticipation procedure, correct repetitions helped and incorrect repetitions hurt performance. The pattern of results suggested that frequency is a salient cue in verbal discrimination learning but that coding or paired-associate processing may occur at the same time. Data from a second group of Ss for which frequency was a less salient cue gave more direct evidence for coding.Keywords
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