Date of Award
1973
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Department
Psychology
First Advisor
Dr. Kenneth a. Blick
Second Advisor
Dr. Frederick J. Kozub
Third Advisor
Dr. Barbara K. Sholley
Recommended Citation
Pines, Michael B., "Effectiveness of experimenter-supplied and subject-originated first letter and descriptive sentence mnemonics in learning word pairs" (1973). Master's Theses. 945.
https://scholarship.richmond.edu/masters-theses/945
Comments
The purpose of this experiment was to compare the effectiveness of E-supplied and s-originated first letter and descriptive sentence mnemonics to a simple repetition condition. The Ss using E-supplied schemes suffered no losses in recall of 10 word pairs over 6-weeks, while Ss in the other three conditions showed significant retention losses at 2-day and 6-week intervals. The E-supplied schemes were significantly superior to S-originated schemes which in turn excelled the simple repetition condition. There were no differences in recall between the two E-supplied groups or between the two S-originated conditions. It was concluded that the source of the mnemonic was the crucial variable affecting recall.