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Offenbach, Stuart I. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1973
Second graders were administered a two-choice discrimination task in which irrelevant dimensions were correlated .50, .75, or 1.00 with the 100 percent rewarded cue. Results indicate that learning was most impeded in the .75 condition and was most efficient in the 1.00 condition. These results support the Hypothesis Testing Theory of…
Descriptors: Attention, Cues, Discrimination Learning, Elementary School Students
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King, William L.; Holt, Julia Rae – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1970
Information obtained in this study involving 72 girls (6-, 9-, and 12-year-olds) documents the facilitating effect of forced verbalization at three age levels. (Author/WY)
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Cognitive Development, Hypothesis Testing, Language Skills
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Lafon, Peggy; Chasseigne, Gerard; Mullet, Etienne – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2004
This study examined age-related differences in functional learning performance manifested among children, adolescents, and young adults placed in a two-cue ecology involving cues with direct relation and inverse relations with the criterion. On each trial, participants were instructed to consider the values taken by two cues, predict from these…
Descriptors: Hypothesis Testing, Cues, Young Adults, Adolescents