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Bean, Linda L.; McCroskery, James H. – Journal of Psychology, 1973
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Educational Research
Koser, Sandra G.; Natkin, Gerald – 1972
The role of imagery formation as a mnemonic device in drawing valid inferences from a prose passage was studied. The 72 undergraduate subjects were divided into two groups: one given instructions to form images for the objects discussed in the text, the other given instructions to repeat each sentence five times. Half the passages consisted of…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Imagery
Ortiz, Flora Ida; Morelan, Steve J. – 1974
The effect of cognitive style and learning conditions on the rote verbal learning performance of Mexican American subjects classified as field independent or field dependent was investigated. Field dependent referred to a strong perceptual influence caused by the context or background while field independent referred to an ability to overcome the…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Bilingual Education, Cognitive Processes, Educational Research
Jensen, Arthur R.; Figueroa, Richard A. – 1975
The study sought to use Jensen's two-level theory of mental abilities to predict some hitherto unknown or unnoticed phenomena--facts about which the theory should yield clear-cut predictions and which are not as clearly predictable from other theories, though they may receive ad hoc explanations after the fact. From the two-level theory of mental…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes, Elementary School Students, Intelligence Differences