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Meaningfulness and Similarity as Determinants of Verbal Retention

Abstract

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The purpose of this study was to ascertain the relationships and interaction between two factors--meaningfulness (m) and similarity (s) as these factors affect the retention and recall of high and low m consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) trigrams.

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
Master of Science (MS)
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Experimental Psychology
Year
1967

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Heins, Walter S.
Contributors dc:contributor
  • Joseph E. Rich
  • Frank R. Nelson
  • James P. Levell

Subjects

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Rights

Language dc:language
English

Identifiers

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Repository record dc:identifier
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/etd/679
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:digitalcommons.cwu.edu:etd-1691

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Last updated
2026-07-24
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citation

Heins, Walter S.. Meaningfulness and Similarity as Determinants of Verbal Retention. 1967. https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/etd/679