Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons™
Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
Articles 1 - 2 of 2
Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences
Superordinate Words And Subordinate Words In Mediate Association, Chalermwong Vajanasoontorn
Superordinate Words And Subordinate Words In Mediate Association, Chalermwong Vajanasoontorn
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The purpose of the study was to investigate the effectiveness of the superordinate and subordinate words as mediators in mediate association learning across three different age groups in the A-B, B-C, A-C mediation paradigm. The effects of sex difference, high and low levels of associational fluency, as well as a type of pre-training which was done by requiring subjects to create associations to the mediating B terms, were considered .
The subjects used were, 50 fourth graders (22 boys and 28 girls), 54 seventh graders (26 boys and 28 girls), and 51 tenth graders (22 boys and 29 girls), for …
Affect And Meaningfulness As Variables In Mediate Association, James A. Aagard
Affect And Meaningfulness As Variables In Mediate Association, James A. Aagard
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The purpose of this study was to determine whether affect influences mediate association. A second purpose of this experiment was to test whether there could be found an interaction between affect and meaningfulness in the verbal mediation scores.
The subjects were all of the students registered for an Educational Psychology class at Utah State University, Spring Quarter, 1969. These students were randomly assigned to one of two groups, designated Phase I or Phase II. Phase I was designed to study the influence of affect upon mediation and the subjects in this group learned two lists of seven paired associates. Phase …