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The Competent Infant, Steven Friedman, Peter Vietze
The Competent Infant, Steven Friedman, Peter Vietze
Department of Psychology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
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Phrases Vs Meaning In The Immediate Recall Of Sentences, David Townsend, Eli Saltz
Phrases Vs Meaning In The Immediate Recall Of Sentences, David Townsend, Eli Saltz
Department of Psychology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
This study evaluated Johnson’s (1965) measure of phrase independence in the recall of sentences. Twenty-five Ss were presented with groups of three sentences that differed in structure and were immediately asked to recall the sentences. Fewer errors were made on subject, verb, and object words for all sentence types, but the probability of a transitional error (TEP) at the phrase boundary was not always greater than at other transitions in the sentence. The results indicate that the TEP is a misleading measure and that sentence meaning is more appropriate as a unit of recall than is the sentence phrase. The …