Verbal Learning Paper

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Verbal Learning Mandana Smith PSY/550 May 28, 2012 Maya Aleksic, Ph.D. Verbal Learning Learning styles vary by individuals as he or she learns in various ways. Concepts of learning and styles have become more influential in research, psychology, society, and educators alike. Promotion of learning styles is assessed through various testing, technology, and devices that can assess learning styles. By understanding how individuals learn, approaches can be identified to maximize learning styles to enhance retention, processing, absorption, and concentration of difficult or new information. Interactions between elements happen differently with individuals (Pashler, McDaniel, Rohrer, & Bjork, 2009). Determinations regarding each individual’s concentration, maintenance, and response to processing styles toward retention and long- term memories can be studied. These types of interactions and studies into learning permits for identification of preferences, strengths, and modes of learning specific to an individual that effect psychological, environmental, social, physiological, and emotional factors (Pashler, McDaniel, Rohrer, & Bjork, 2009). The purpose of this paper aids in evaluating and describing verbal learning, comparing, and contrasting paired associate, serial, and free recall learning, and exploring concepts of mnemonics within recalling verbal stimuli. Concept of Verbal Learning, Curve of Forgetting and Three Verbal Learning Methods Herman Ebbinghaus is associated with concepts of verbal learning regarding his work with memory. Learning techniques, such as serial learning, (lists of words), paired association,

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