Grammatical intrusions in the recall of structured letter pairs: Mediated transfer or position learning?
- 1 January 1966
- journal article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Experimental Psychology
- Vol. 72 (4) , 580-588
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0023768
Abstract
Sets of letter pairs were constructed from 4 classes of letters, M, N, P, and Q to form MN and PQ sequences. In free recall, Ss produced more intrusions of the form MQ and PN than would be expected if intrusions were produced by randomly combining the letters appearing in the presented pairs. An adequate account of the intrusion data is provided by a theory of position learning proposed by Braine. An alternative proposal by Jenkins and Palermo based upon mediated transfer fails to predict the high proportion of MQ and PN intrusions. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)Keywords
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