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The effect of instructions to use imagery and sentence strategies in verbal discrimination learning (VDL) was investigated in two experiments. In Experiment I, both imaging to and constructing a sentence for the correct item of each pair facilitated VDL relative to an uninstructed control condition. Incorporating both words of the pair into a compound image or compound sentence had no effect, a result that was replicated in Experiment It. Of the two compound instructions, only compound sentences consistently facilitated associative recall of the VDL pairs, suggesting that compound imagery instructions were not always adhered to by the Ss.
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This research was supported by Grant A8580 from the National Research Council of Canada.
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Rowe, E.J., Cake, L.J. Imagery and sentence mediators in verbal discrimination learning. Memory & Cognition 2, 169–175 (1974). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03197510
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