The processing of frequency information: An automatic mechanism?

Aspects of the processing of frequency information were investigated in two studies. In one, students at four ages from grade two to college were either informed or not prior to the presentation of a list of words whose true frequency varied from zero to five, that their subsequent task would be to...

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Published inJournal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior Vol. 16; no. 2; pp. 173 - 184
Main Authors Hasher, Lynn, Chromiak, Walter
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Elsevier B.V 01.04.1977
Academic Press
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Summary:Aspects of the processing of frequency information were investigated in two studies. In one, students at four ages from grade two to college were either informed or not prior to the presentation of a list of words whose true frequency varied from zero to five, that their subsequent task would be to judge the number of times that each word appeared. Second graders were as prepared to process frequency differences as adults. A second study showed that practice at frequency counting does not improve the performance of young adults and neither does the provision of specific feedback regarding the accuracy of earlier performance. Frequency tagging appears to be an automatic aspect of the processing of information.
ISSN:0022-5371
0749-596X
DOI:10.1016/S0022-5371(77)80045-5