Abstract:Six short-term memory tests from Guilford's structure-of-intellect model were administered to 60 subjects. The subjects were then presented with a four-category concept problem in two phases. During the first 36 trials, randomly selected instances were repeated in order to determine subjects' ability to recall previously presented instances. Beginning with the thirty-seventh instance, the previous instance was made available for 30 randomly selected subjects, while the other 30 subjects were not provided with … Show more
“…An additional study (Blaine & Dunham, 1969) was executed involving the same underlying theme as the above studies. It has consistently been shown that providing subjects with available past instances facilitates performance in concept-learning problems.…”
Section: Availability Of Inetanoee and Memorymentioning
“…An additional study (Blaine & Dunham, 1969) was executed involving the same underlying theme as the above studies. It has consistently been shown that providing subjects with available past instances facilitates performance in concept-learning problems.…”
Section: Availability Of Inetanoee and Memorymentioning
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