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Science 25 June 1965:
Vol. 148. no. 3678, pp. 1749 - 1750
DOI: 10.1126/science.148.3678.1749
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Two-Stage Paired-Associate Learning and Eye Movements

P. D. McCormack 1 and E. J. Haltrecht 1

1 Department of Psychology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

Eye movements of 20 male students were photographed continuously throughout the course of their learning verbal paired-associates. As learning progressed, proportionately less and less time was spent scanning the response when the stimulus and response were presented together. These findings are interpreted as supporting a two-stage theory of verbal learning.

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