Learning of responses to stimuli classes and to specific stimuli.

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To test Miller's chunk hypothesis, the performance of Ss who learned a common number response to each of 8 categories of 3 words was compared with that of Ss who learned control lists of 8 word-number pairs. Performance of Ss who learned number responses to Exhaustive word categories, i.e., categories whose 3 words represent all (or nearly all) the words belonging to the category, did not differ significantly from that of control Ss. Performance of Ss who learned number responses to Nonexhaustive word categories, i.e., categories whose 3 words represent a small sample of the words belonging to the category, differed significantly (p<.001) from both the control Ss and Ss presented with the Exhaustive categories. The results were interpreted as providing support for Miller's views regarding verbal recoding. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

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