LEARNING
BIOLOGY COGNITION AND LEARNING
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learning a list of items in a particular order
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learning to respond with one member of a pair when given the other member, usually from a list of pairs to be memorized.
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memorizing a list but not in a special order
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The method of paired-associate learning, in which a person is asked to learn to associate one syllable or word with another (e.g., complete–hot, safe–green, wild–soft), encouraged the investigation of the influence of stimulus and response similarity on transfer of learning.
Detailed explanation-2: -a technique used in studying learning in which participants learn syllables, words, or other items in pairs and are later presented with one half of each pair to which they must respond with the matching half.
Detailed explanation-3: -Paired-associate learning (PAL) is an episodic memory paradigm in which pairs of items (e.g., “absence-hollow”) are presented during one or more learning trials. At test, the first item of the pair is presented as a cue in order to elicit a response of the second item.
Detailed explanation-4: -Paired-associate (PA) learning was invented by Mary Whiton Calkins in 1894 and involves the pairing of two items (usually words)-a stimulus and a response.