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Like paired-associate (PA) and serial learning, the standard anticipation (Ant) procedure of verbal-discrimination (VD) learning was found to be inferior to a recall (Rec) VD procedure whereby presentation of all VD pairs is temporally separated from presentation of all correct items. This Rec superiority obtained both between unmixed lists and within mixed Ant-Rec lists. Subsequent PA performance showed no significant transfer for items taken from the VD list for either Ant or Rec VD procedures.
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1. This research was supported by Public Health Service Research Grant HD-01062 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. The authors are also indebted to Janet A. Lambert for assistance in running this experiment.
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Battig, W.F., Switalski, R.W. Comparison of anticipation and recall procedures in verbal-discrimination learning. Psychon Sci 6, 65–66 (1966). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03327959
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