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✓ The most important determinants are the different features of the verbal
material to be learned.
✓ They include
➢ length of the list to be learned and
➢ meaningfulness of the material.
Meaningfulness of the material.
Meaningfulness of material is measured in several ways.
➢ The number of associations elicited in a fixed time,
➢ familiarity of the material and
➢ frequency of usage, relations among the words in the list, and
➢ Sequential dependence of each word of the list on the preceding words
Some important facts:
➢ The more time it takes to learn the list, stronger will be the learning.
➢ In this respect psychologists have found that the total time principle operates.
➢ This principle states that a fixed amount of time is necessary to learn a fixed
amount of material, regardless of the number of trials into which that time is
divided.
➢ The more time it takes to learn, the stronger becomes the learning.
➢ Bousfield’s Category Clustering.
➢ Verbal learning is both intentional as well as incidental.
➢ Verbal learning is usually intentional
➢ but a person may learn some features of the words unintentionally or
incidentally.
➢ In this kind of learning, participants notice features such as whether two or
more words rhyme, start with identical letters, have same vowels, etc.
