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Modified free recall (MFR) of associations between intrapair wrong (W) and right (R) items learned incidentally during practice on an intentional verbal-discrimination (VD) learning task was related to direction of recall (W-R versus R-W), the presence-absence of overt pronunciation of W and R items during the informative feedback exposures of VD practice, and degree of practice (five versus 10 trials) on the VD task. MFR for both W-R and R-W associations increased with overt verbalization and with greater practice, but W-R and R-W recall did not differ in amount. Associative matching of intrapair W and R items also increased with overt verbalization and degree of practice. Pronunciation was found to be accompanied by a decrease in proficiency of learning the intentional VD task.
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1. This study was supported in part by a NASA Pre-doctoral Fellowship awarded to the first author.
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Sardello, R.J., Kausler, D.H. Associative recall in verbal-discrimination learning as related to pronunciation and degree of practice. Psychon Sci 8, 253–254 (1967). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03331647
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