serial anticipation method n. Quick reference
A Dictionary of Psychology (4 ed.)
... anticipation method n . A technique for studying verbal learning in which on each trial the learner is provided with a stimulus word and attempts to provide the next word in the list, or, in the case of paired-associate learning , the second member of a pair, and after each response the learner is shown the correct word. Also called the anticipation method...
serial anticipation method
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anticipation method n. Quick reference
A Dictionary of Psychology (4 ed.)
... method n. Another name for the serial anticipation method...
serial recall n. Quick reference
A Dictionary of Psychology (4 ed.)
... recall n . Retrieval from memory of a number of items of information in the order in which they were originally presented, in contradistinction to free recall . See also Ranschburg inhibition , recall , repetition effect , serial anticipation method...
serial learning n. Quick reference
A Dictionary of Psychology (4 ed.)
... learning n . 1. Any task that involves learning lists of items and recalling them in the same serial order in which they were presented. See also serial anticipation method . 2. A generic term for any form of discrimination learning in which the set of stimuli is replaced with a new and unfamiliar set. See generalized oddity problem , habit reversal , non-reversal shift...
paired-associate learning n. Quick reference
A Dictionary of Psychology (4 ed.)
...stone , and so on, and recall may be tested by listing the first member of each pair with a list of alternatives, for example green—apple/box/dress/paper , the learner trying to recognize the correct alternative. Such memory is called associative memory . See also serial anticipation method . PA or PAL abbrev...
Serial Killing and Representation Reference library
Philip L. Simpson
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Crime, Media, and Popular Culture
...subjects for mass media. Serial killing in particular lends itself well to such treatment. First, as Richard Dyer argues, human beings are innately drawn to seriality or repetition because of the anticipation of wanting more in the next repetition of a pleasurable event. Thus, while (fortunately) few take pleasure in repeat murders, almost all human beings can seek out the deferred pleasure of infinitely prolonged narrative in various media formats. Dyer ( 1997 , p. 14) claims that “it is only under capitalism that seriality became a reigning principle of...
discretion Reference library
The New Oxford Companion to Law
...and therefore predictable. It conveys information about the decision‐making proclivities of others; and such familiarity permits a high degree of mutual predictability, allowing decisions in anticipation of what others to whom cases will be handed on will do, facilitating practices such as plea‐bargaining or out‐of‐court settlements, by enabling decisions in anticipation of how ‘the other side’ will react. A problem may be decided about in a particular way for reasons that have little to do with intrinsic features in the case, but much with pressures upon the...
Letters, Roman Reference library
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome
...hundred addressees during the years 96–108 ce , retained the variety of Cicero's Ad familiares . He also began publishing the books serially within his own lifetime, and he polished each letter to focus on a single topic of his own choosing, whether from his public career as an orator or from some other aspect of his social, literary, or domestic life. He thus pursued more aggressively epistolary form's potential as a method of self-portraiture. The posthumously published tenth book contains both sides of Pliny's correspondence with his friend and superior...
Romola Reference library
Oxford Reader's Companion to George Eliot
...in three volumes octavo in July 1863 , bound in dark green cloth, at the customary price of one-and-a-half guineas; though a second issue followed immediately, there was a first-edition remainder issue in 1864 , the three volumes bound as one and sold for 6 s. This was in anticipation of the one-volume Illustrated Edition, published at 6 s. in September 1865 , which included four illustrations from the Cornhill and a title-page vignette newly drawn by Leighton . Smith Elder produced a ‘new edition’ in June 1869 at 2 s. and 6 d. just before their...
Biblical Commentary: New Testament Reference library
Erik H. Herrmann
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Martin Luther
...the lectionary, usually considered a text from one of the Gospels or Epistles. His reforms of worship in Wittenberg also called for weekly serial preaching on Matthew and John for the instruction of the people. From these texts, we have some of the richest sustained reflections on the Gospels in the 16th century. Not only was the substance of his interpretation influential, Luther’s contribution to exegetical method and the hermeneutical problem also opened new possibilities for biblical interpretation that would resonate with both Christian piety and...
Bounded Rationality and Cognitive Limits in Political Decision Making Reference library
Brooke N. Shannon, Zachary A. McGee, and Bryan D. Jones
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Political Decision Making
...with total information available to them. It also incorporates the limitations in cognitive processing that individuals experience when making decisions, because they possess neither perfect knowledge nor the ability to accumulate it, resulting from an imprecision in anticipation of consequences and emotions related to imagined consequences—all of which contribute to our shortcomings as individual utility maximizers ( Simon, 1947 ). Simon thought that limited calculational abilities were far less important than difficulties based in other aspects of...
Fiction Reference library
Encyclopedia of Aesthetics
...these beliefs concern only what fictionally happens to fictional characters in fictional worlds, and these events have no determinate relationship to what happens in our world. There are methods by means of which one finds out what our world is like, methods involving controlled observation, experimentation, and statistical analysis. Novel reading is not another such method. Nevertheless, it is to literary fiction—and more recently to film and television—that people turn in order to express and communicate their views about life and the world and in order to...
The New Journalism Reference library
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature
...awaiting the Beatles from the point of view of various members of the audience. His unusual punctuation and use of onomatopoeia draw the readers into the crowd and convey the tremendous energy of participants. The following quotation is all one sentence, one gasp of pent-up anticipation and frantic release: Each group of musicians that goes off the stage—the horde thinks now the Beatles, but the Beatles don't come, some other group appears, and the sea of girls gets more and more intense and impatient and the screaming gets higher, and the thought slips...
Textual Studies Reference library
Mark Byron
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Literary Theory
...as comparative value of variants. 81 Digital archives of modern literary manuscripts deal with monogenous texts—single or serial manuscripts mostly written by one hand and transmitted in print—rather than polygenous texts often encountered in classical and medieval manuscript studies where manuscripts are copied by numerous hands in different locations and times. Yet modern digital manuscript archives draw on the pioneering methods of their classical and medieval digital counterparts. Projects such as the Heidelberger Papyrussamlung—a joint project of the...
Agricultural Risk Management Reference library
Karl Gunnar Persson and Brian D. Wright
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History
...expectations than the private sector. A third rationale for mandatory sales from stocks is short-run redistribution of wealth, a credible motive when some are starving. However, the level of private stocks, given any history of harvests, may be reduced or even eliminated by anticipation of confiscation or forced sales in times of high demand. Hence, a policy of public intervention may improve the distribution of existing stocks yet reduce the consumption of the whole population via its previously anticipated effects on storage incentives. A fourth rationale for...
