The von Restorff Isolation Effect Employing One and Three Isolates
- 1 December 1970
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 27 (3) , 963-966
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1970.27.3.963
Abstract
60 college students were required to learn a serial list of 13 three-letter nouns either with the middle item (E1) or the three middle items (E2) isolated, or without any isolates (C), to a learning criterion of two perfect trials. Employing the perceptual enhancement of isolation, it was found that there was a significant facilitation of the learning of the isolated item in E1. This facilitation did not occur when three items were isolated nor was the learning of the list as a whole facilitated in either E1 or E2.Keywords
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