Natural language mediation and interitem interference in paired-associate learning

Individual differences in learning speed.

“…A substantial body of research exists showing a positive relation between the number of elaborators used and superior acquisition performance, particularly for paired-associate learning tasks (Adams, Mclntyre, & Thorsheim, 1969;Dallett, 1964;Kiess & Montague, 1965;Martin et al, 1965;Montague & Wearing, 1967). For instance, Adams et al found that the learning rate for elaborated pairs was almost double-that found for pairs in which no elaboration of any kind was reported.…”