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Image Tracing: An Analysis of Its Effectiveness in Children's Pictorial Discrimination Learning
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Levin, Joel R.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1977
A total of 45 fifth grade students were the subjects of an experiment offering support for a component of learning strategy (memory imagery). Various theoretical explanations of the image-tracing phenomenon are considered, including depth of processing, dual coding and frequency. (MS)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Discrimination Learning, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Development of the Middle Concept.
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Rabinowitz, F. Michael; Howe, Mark L. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1994
Children's use of the middle concept was assessed in two developmental studies. Experiment 1, with kindergarten through fifth-grade students, showed marked improvement in the mastery of the middle concept across elementary grades. In Experiment 2, discrimination pretraining with two nonoverlapping stimulus sets transferred to the novel test…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Concept Formation, Dimensional Preference, Elementary Education