INCREMENTAL OR ONE-TRIAL LEARNING OF VERBAL SERIES

摘要

The purpose of this study was to demonstrate that with judicious selection of stimulus material, evidence can be gathered to support either an incremental learning position or an all-or-none position. It is shown that if the a priori response probabilities of words in a series are high, the retrieval of that series from memory will lend support to the all-or-none point of view. If, on the other hand, the a priori probabilities are low, the incremental position will be upheld. It is concluded that learning is incremental, but that high response probability will tend to mask the supporting evidence.