INCREMENTAL OR ONE-TRIAL LEARNING OF VERBAL SERIES
William H. Sumby · 1965
Abstract : The purpose of this study was to demonstrate that with judicious selection of stimulus material, evidence can be gathered to support either an incremental learning position or an all-or-none position. It is shown that if the a priori response probabilities of words in a series are high, the retrieval of that series from memory will lend support to the all-or-none point of view. If, on the other hand, the a priori probabilities are low, the incremental position will be upheld. It is concluded that learning is incremental, but that high response probability will tend to mack the supporting evidence.