Arthur Melton

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Arthur Melton is affiliated with the following schools: Yale University, University of Michigan, University of Missouri

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According to Wikipedia, Arthur Weever Melton was an American experimental psychologist, researcher, and professor. He served as the editor of the Journal of Experimental Psychology for twelve years. Background Arthur "Art" Weever Melton was born in Fayetteville, Arkansas on August 13, 1906. At 18 years old, he began undergraduate studies in Psychology at Washington University in St. Louis where he worked with John A. McGeoch, a functionalist, who performed studies exploring how the distribution of practice, rest, and interpolated learning affects the formation and loss of association. Melton received a BA in psychology in 1928. He went on to graduate school at Yale University under the mentorship of Edward S. Robinson, another functionalist, whose research focused on verbal learning. Melton obtained his PhD in experimental psychology.in 1932.

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Arthur Melton's Published Works

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Coding Processes in Human Memory. (1973) (799)
Implications of short-term memory for a general theory of memory (1963) (709)
Categories of Human Learning (1964) (518)
The situation with respect to the spacing of repetitions and memory (1970) (299)
The influence of degree of interpolated learning on retroactive inhibition and the overt transfer of specific responses. By Arthur W. Melton, Jean McQueen Irwin, 1940. (1940) (193)
Repetition and retrieval from memory. (1967) (164)
Psychological Principles in System Development (1962) (156)
Retroactive and proactive inhibition in retention: evidence for a two-factor theory of retroactive inhibition. (1941) (143)
Visitor Behavior in Museums: Some Early Research in Environmental Design (1972) (93)
The Ranschburg Phenomenon: Failures of immediate recall correlated with repetition of elements within a stimulus (1965) (37)
The end-spurt in memorization curves as an artifact of the averaging of individual curves. (1936) (29)
The comparative retention values of maze habits and of nonsense syllables (29)
SHORT-TERM RECOGNITION MEMORY. (1967) (28)
PSYCHOLOGICAL BULLETIN THE METHODOLOGY OF EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES OF HUMAN LEARNING AND RETENTION: I. THE FUNCTIONS OF A METHODOLOGY AND THE AVAILABLE CRITERIA FOR EVALUATING DIFFERENT EXPERIMENTAL METHODS (1936) (25)
Meaningfulness and trigram recognition (1970) (23)
The science of learning and the technology of educational methods. (1959) (23)
The retention of serial lists of adjectives over short time-intervals with varying rates of presentation (1942) (22)
The Taxonomy of Human Learning: Overview (1964) (21)
Statistics in Psychology and Education. (Second Edition). (1938) (14)
Effects of Frequency of Presentation and Stimulus Length on Retention in the Brown Peterson Paradigm. (1974) (14)
Human memory : Festschrift in honor of Benton J. Underwood (1972) (14)
Military psychology in the United States of America. (1957) (13)
Human Memory: Festschrift for Benton J. Underwood (1974) (9)
Present accomplishment and future trends in problem-solving and learning theory. (1956) (8)
The American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Contribution Awards for 1956. (1957) (8)
A note on the relation between brain injury and retentiveness. (1931) (8)
The logic of modern psychology. I. (1941) (8)
Memorizing and Organizing (1941) (7)
The concept of coding in learning-memory theory (1973) (4)
THE SECTION OF PSYCHOLOGY OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. (1941) (4)
SHORT- AND LONG-TERM POSTPERCEPTUAL MEMORY: DICHOTOMY OR CONTINUUM? (1970) (2)
Legitimacy for what (1970) (2)
Experimental and observational methods. (0)
The Meaning of Meaning in Rote Learning. (1962) (0)
The Section of Psychology of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1941) (0)
HUMAN PERFORMANCE IN INFORMATION PROCESSING AND STORAGE (1967) (0)
Human Information Handling Processes (1968) (0)
THE ORGANIZATION OF RECALL. VOLUME II (1964) (0)
Composite displays of paintings and furniture. (1935) (0)
Meaningfulness and Trigram Recognition 1 (0)
New analysis of the problem of installation in art museums. (0)
Some basic conceptions involved in behavior-research in museums. (1935) (0)
The location of the exhibit. (1935) (0)
The spacing of objects on display when they are homogeneous with respect to type. (0)
Methodological potpourri, variously spiced. (1959) (0)
Psychology of Learning: A Textbook in Educational Psychology. (1935) (0)
Review of Educational Psychology. (1937) (0)

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