Concept information
Preferred term
Hunter-McCrary hypothesis
Definition
- The hypothesis that, when the proportion of errors for each serial position in the list is used as a measure of serial learning, serial position curves always have the same form in different experimental conditions: the percentage of errors is higher for the items in the middle of the list than for items placed at the beginning or end of the list.
Broader concept
Synonym(s)
- Hunter-McCrary law
Belongs to group
Bibliographic citation(s)
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• McCrary, J. W., & Hunter, W. S. (1953). Serial position curves in verbal learning. Science, 117(3032), 131–134. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.117.3032.131
• Document type: empirical study
• Access: closed
Creator
- Frank Arnould
In other languages
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French
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loi de Hunter-McCrary
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/P66-GSTMMFTX-5
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