Associative asymmetry of compound words

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1163-1171

  Caplan, Jeremy B ^a   Boulton, Kathy L ^a   Gagné, Christina L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Association memory; Associative symmetry; Compound words; Cued recall; Unitization

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION; DEFENSE MECHANISM; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; REACTION TIME; RECALL; STATISTICS; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY;

ASSOCIATION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REACTION TIME; REGRESSION (PSYCHOLOGY); STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84903166880     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0036588     Document Type: Article

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