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Three groups of Ss were given a part-whole transfer task where the words were members of taxonomic categories. Information regarding the taxonomic nature of the words was varied. The information-before (IB) group was given this information prior to the part list, the information-between (IBe) group received it prior to the whole list, and the no-information (NI) group was never given any information. Two control groups were included which were given taxonomic words in part-list learning which were not included in the whole list, i.e., category content was irrelevant. The information-between/irrelevant (IBe/I) group was given information regarding the whole list prior to the whole list, and the no-information/irrelevant (NI/I) group was given no information at all. Basically, the results indicated that both the IB and IBe groups exceeded the NI/I and NI groups in word recall. They did not, however, differ between themselves, except on Trial 1 of the whole list when only “;old”; words recalled were considered. Implications of these results were discussed.
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This research was partially supported by institutional funds granted to Mississippi State University by the National Science Foundation.
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Hudson, R.L., Davis, J.L. Part-whole transfer of a taxonomic word list. Psychon Sci 26, 94–96 (1972). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03335444
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