Association value, familiarity, and pronunciability ratings as predictors of serial verbal learning.

Abstract

3 measures of meaningfulness were compared as predictors of the case of serial verbal learning of 12-item lists of consonant-vowel-consonant trigrams of 30-80% association value (AV). There were 4 main groups of Ss; the lists had the same values for 2 measures of meaningfulness and 1 which was different (e.g., equal average AV and familiarities but different average rated pronunciabilities). Ss were 80 men and women college students. The results were that ease of learning was not a function of rated pronunciability of familiarity (p>.05) but was a function of AV for the number of correct responses measure of learning (p = .05). (17 ref.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)