SOLUBILITY AND FACTORS THAT AFFECT SOLUBILITY

In an old study that shows the effect of meaning on learning, people memorized a list of 200 nonsense syllables, a 200-word passage of prose, and 200 words of poetry. The nonsense syllables took about 1.5 hours to memorize, while the prose took less then a half-hour, and the poetry took about 10 minutes. ................
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