An experimental analysis of the errors in rote serial learning.

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"Three experiments on rote verbal learning by the method of anticipation were performed. In two of the experiments Ss were allowed unlimited time between each syllable to anticipate…. Under these conditions the skewed serial-position effect seems to be accounted for by the simple sum of 2 empirical factors. Intra-list intrusions form a distribution about the middle of of the list that is almost symmetrical. Failure-of-response errors are low at the beginning of the list, mount rapidly through the first half of the list, and reach a somewhat variable asymptote during the second half of the list. These two sources of error, summed together, produce the classical serial-position curve." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

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