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The implementation of sentences to organize a 12-item serial list was found to have an effect on Ssf resulting error profiles. Under two methods of testing, namely serial anticipation and serial recall, profiles based respectively on serial-position errors and transitional errors were found to differ from those obtained when verbal organizations were not employed.
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This article is based on the author’s thesis, submitted in partial fulfillment of the PhD degree at the University of California, Berkeley. The author wishes to acknowledge the financial support of the research by the Graduate Division of the University of California, and the inspiring guidance received from Dr. William D. Rohwer, Jr. The author is indebted to Dr. Donald Hardy and his staff at the Inland Valley Elementary School in Orinda, California, without whose support this study would not have been possible.
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Levin, J.R. The effect of verbal organizations on the location of subjects’ errors in serial learning. Psychon Sci 16, 61–63 (1969). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03336617
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03336617