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Peer reviewedScandura, Joseph M. – American Psychologist, 1977
Discusses how behavioral objectives and knowledge are related, what form a performance test theory should take, why some people can skip prerequisites whereas others cannot, how people discover new information, the relationship between content and performance analysis, and, how one might apply the structural approach in adaptive instruction.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Educational Problems, Educational Psychology, Educational Testing
Peer reviewedAzrin, N. H. – American Psychologist, 1977
Asserts that graduate training, as well as the policies of journals and granting agencies, supports an approach to research that promotes scientific understanding but does not produce effective clinical treatment. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Change Strategies, Learning Processes, Program Evaluation
Peer reviewedAtkinson, Richard C. – American Psychologist, 1975
Discusses the keyword method, which divided vocabulary learning into two stages: (1) the subject associates the spoken foreign word with the keyword, and association that is formed quickly because of the acoustic similarity between the words, and, (2) the subject forms a mental image of the keyword "interacting" with the English translation.…
Descriptors: Experimental Psychology, Learning Processes, Learning Theories, Mnemonics
Peer reviewedMahoney, Michael J. – American Psychologist, 1977
Asserting that recent efforts to combine cognitive and behavioristic approaches to psychotherapy are one indication "that psychology is undergoing some sort of 'revolution' in the sense that cognitive processes have become a very popular topic," this paper discusses the trend's development, as well as some of its fundamental assertions,…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Processes, Educational History
