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Wheeler, Andrew J.; Sulzer-Azaroff, Beth – 1972
The present study assessed the effects of a distinct visual stimulus (a light) associated with each component of a four-component chain of nonsense syllables. When these added lights were used to train the chains of nonsense syllables, speed of acquisition was unaffected, but errors were reduced, loss of previously acquired responses was reduced,…
Descriptors: Children, Responses, Serial Learning, Verbal Learning
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Marchand, Antoinette – Child Study Journal, 1974
Tasks administered to sixty females 60-120 months of age show that it is possible to test for Piagetian logic by using problems structured in a social context and also suggest that the order of acquisition of logical operations with social stimuli is consistent with the order which has been established with the use of physical stimuli. (Author/CS)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Children, Classification, Conservation (Concept)
Keeton, Anne; McLean, Leslie D. – 1973
Two studies examined serial recall process of first-grade Canadian children from inner-city and suburban backgrounds. In the first study significant differences were found in the serial position curve of recall. Suburban children recalled a greater number of early-presented, primacy items, while inner-city children who had equivalent span…
Descriptors: Attention Span, Children, Grade 1, Learning Processes