| Abstract: | The paper reports eight experiments concerning the form class effect. If verb connectives enhance organization between pairs of nouns more than do conjunction connectives, then (a) the form class effect should obtain in cued but not free recall, (b) interactive imagery instructions should raise performance with conjunctions, removing the effect, (c) separation imagery instructions should reduce performance with verbs, removing the effect, and (d) prepositions implying spatial contact should be superior as mediators for cued recall compared with less suggestive prepositions. The results of the experiments confirm the predictions, except that grade 3 children do not perform as expected with the instructional variables. |
