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Human Development | 1 |
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Meichenbaum, D. | 1 |
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Meichenbaum, D. – Human Development, 1974
Proposes a self-instructional strategy training paradigm designed to explicitly teach that the use of heuristic processes and mediational devices can be employed to compensate for age-associated deficits, such as poor problem solving. Format for the procedure was derived from the developmental research of the Soviet psychologists Vygotsky and…
Descriptors: Autoinstructional Aids, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Concept Formation