ABSTRACT
One of the most common outcomes of brain injury is a memory impairment, manifest in an inability to remember new information. A. Baddeley and B. A. Wilson suggest that memory-impaired people rely more on implicit memory when learning new information, but that implicit memory is of little use in correcting errors once erroneous responses have been made. Novel paired associates were studied under two conditions: errorless and errorful learning. During notebook training sessions only the errorless and errorful procedures indicated earlier were carried out: there was no additional free or cued recall during training period. To assess the generality of the errorless learning advantage in the acquisition of novel associations, we have recently carried out of group studies of verbal association learning. In contrast to our findings, J. J. Evans et al. have found more limited success in the use of errorless learning.
