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In order to assess the hypothesis that the “response method” of concept learning is a rote learning task, performance on mediated and nonmediated variants of the response method were compared with each other and with performance on paired associate tasks. A low but significant relationship was found between mediated and nonmediated concept learning but little relationship was found between paired associate learning and performance on either concept learning task.
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1. This research was supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation and the University of Miami (NSF GU1670 SUB21) to the senior author. We wish to express our appreciation to Edward J. Murray and Neil Schneiderman for their helpful comments.
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Jacobson, L.I., Elenewski, J.J. & Lordahl, D.S. The relationship between rote learning and mediated and nonmediated concept learning. Psychon Sci 10, 347–348 (1968). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03331554
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