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Williams, Richard N. – 1983
The literature of antonymy, though disjointed and inconclusive, has found that opposition is important to development, learning, psychological health, and creativity. To investigate the role of dialectics in cognitive processes and human learning, four empirical studies were undertaken. In study one, to investigate the dialectic process in…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Epistemology, Learning Processes
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Manis, Franklin R., And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1987
Examined whether reading disabled children differed in the utilization of rules in a paired associate learning task. In two experiments, children were assigned to one of three conditions: (a)nonrule, (b)consistent rule, or (c)inconsistent rule. When present, the rule was based on semantic opposites. (Author/NH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Intelligence Quotient
Johnson, Mitzi M. S.; Greenwald, Anthony G. – 1985
An earlier study showed that responses are remembered better when subjects produce them from cues, than when subjects read cue-response pairs. The decided memory advantage for generated targets relative to read ones is known as the generation effect. The present research is designed to study the generation effect for cues, following a…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes, Cues