Memorability as a measure of processing: a unit analysis of prose and list learning.

The percentage of subjects recalling each unit in a list or prose passage is considered as a dependent measure. When the same units are recalled in different tasks, processing is assumed to be the same; when different units are recalled, processing is assumed to be different. Two collections of memory tasks are presented, one for lists and one for prose. The relations found in these two collections are supported by an extensive reanalysis of the existing prose memory literature. The same set of words were learned by 13 different groups of subjects under 13 different conditions. Included were intentional free-recall tasks, incidental free recall following lexical decision, and incidental free recall following ratings of orthographic distinctiveness and emotionality. Although the nine free-recall tasks varied widely with regard to the amount of recall, the relative probability of recall for the words was very similar among the tasks. Imagery encoding and recognition produced relative probabilities of recall that were different from each other and from the free-recall tasks. Similar results were obtained with a prose passage. A story was learned by 13 different groups of subjects under 13 different conditions. Eight free-recall tasks, which varied with respect to incidental or intentional learning, retention interval, and the age of the subjects, produced similar relative probabilities of recall, whereas recognition and prompted recall produced relative probabilities of recall that were different from each other and from the free-recall tasks. A review of the prose literature was undertaken to test the generality of these results. Analysis of variance is the most common statistical procedure in this literature. If the relative probability of recall of units varied across conditions, a units by condition interaction would be expected. For the 12 studies that manipulated retention interval, an average of 21% of the variance was accounted for by the main effect of retention interval, 17% by the main effect of units, and only 2% by the retention interval by units interaction. Similarly, for the 12 studies that varied the age of the subjects, 6% of the variance was accounted for by the main effect of age, 32% by the main effect of units, and only 1% by the interaction of age by units.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)

What Is Known: Prose Pieces

Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2013

Specimens of English prose style from Malory to Macaulay, selected and annotated, with an introductory essay

Mode of access: Internet.

Landmarks of English literature /

"The plan adopted in this book has been to deal solely with the very greatest names in the several departments of English literature".--Introd.

An anthology of English prose from Bede to R.L.S.

Alphabetical list of authors: p. 399-400.

Preparatory Latin prose-book : containing all the Latin prose necessary for entering college ; with references to Kühner's and Andrews and Stoddard's Latin grammars; notes critical and explanatory; a vocabulary and a geographical and historical index /

Includes index.

English prose of the XVII century.

"Companion volume to English poetry of the seventeenth century."

Oscar Wilde : poems in prose and private letters ; including an intimate preface by his biographer, Frank Harris.

Includes facsimile of letter by Oscar Wilde in his handwriting.

Prose writers of Germany;

Mode of access: Internet.

Vermischte Aufsätze in englischer Prose : hauptsächlich zum Besten derer welche diese Sprache in Rücksicht auf bürgerliche Geschäfte lernen wollen /

Preface in German; text in English.

Extracts from Italian prose writers.

Pref. signed: A Panizzi.

Nuovo scelta di prose italiane : tratte da' piu celebri scrittori moderni, con brevi notizie sopra la vita e gli scritti di ciasheduno /

La continuazione della Scelta di prose italiane.

Landmarks of English literature.

Deals "solely with the very greatest names in the several departments of English literature".--Introd.

Specimens of prose description,

Mode of access: Internet.