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Download full textWheeler, 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
Peer reviewedBaumeister, Alfred A. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1974
Educable mental retardates and normal grade school students were presented seven classes of materials in both visual and auditory modalities for the determination of immediate memory span thresholds. Major conclusions included auditory presentation produces higher thresholds than visual, and retarded children may employ different processing…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Children, Elementary Education, Learning Modalities
Reese, Hayne W. – 1970
A skilled cognitive theorist might help behaviorists resolve inconsistencies found from their experimentation with imaginal mnemonics in paired-associate and serial learning tasks. Iconic cognition which relegates verbal processes to short-term storage and output systems is inadequate to explain the verbal coding and elaboration processes…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Processes, Conditioning
