Reminiscence and Verbal Learning

Abstract

The present investigation concerns the effect of interpolation of a short period of color naming on learning of two lists of paired-associates in immediate succession. The response period was increased at various stages during post-rest learning. The results indicate that the difference between the rest and the non-rest groups was abolished whenever the response period was increased, and the speed of responding was greater for post-rest List 1 than List 2 responses. Other results suggest that the test group was less capable of inhibiting and identifying an inappropriate (but previously correct) response than the control, although the responses from both the lists were almost equally available to the two groups.