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Variation In The Order Of Presentation Of Cues As One Variable In Concept Organization, John E. Genasci May 1967

Variation In The Order Of Presentation Of Cues As One Variable In Concept Organization, John E. Genasci

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In the experiment, with forty-eight students as subjects, a series of nonsense syllables (DAX, MEF, TOV, VIC, YOP, ZIP, and ZIL) were to be associated with four geometric figures. The task was so arranged that Zip applied to all figures, Dax and Vic to subsets of two figures each, and the remaining were individual labels. In each of three experiments there was an experimental group that received pre-response cueing by means of an analogy which involved hierarchic concepts in the same general form, i. e ., animal, wild, tame, and individual names.

The results suggest that the order and timing …