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This experiment was a correlational study designed to investigate the ability of the verbal loop hypothesis to predict individual differences in the recall ability of 51 evening college students presented with 20 arrays of eight-digit binary numbers at exposure times of 0.5 sec. The independent variable was the binary array, and the two dependent variables to be correlated were verbalization length, measured in units of words, and stimulus difficulty, measured in units of number of errors. Glanzer & Clark’s (1962) finding of a high negative correlation between stimulus accuracy and mean verbalization length was replicated here by obtaining a high positive correlation between stimulus difficulty and mean stimulus verbalization length. However, there was no relationship found between the characteristic verbalization length of an S and his ability on the experimental task as measured by his total number of errors.
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This work was done under the auspices of Dr. Coleman Paul of Adelphi University.
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Udolf, R. The verbal loop hypothesis as a predictor of individual differences in short-term recall of tachistoscopically presented binary numbers. Psychon Sci 21, 245–247 (1970). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03332466
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