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Grant, Lauren D.; Weissman, Daniel H. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2023
Current views posit that forming and retrieving memories of ongoing events influences action control. However, the organizational structure of these memories, or event files, remains unclear. The "hierarchical coding view" posits a hierarchical structure, wherein task sets occupy a high level of the hierarchy. Here, the contents of an…
Descriptors: Memory, Generalization, Cognitive Processes, College Students
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Eiichi Nojiri; Kenkichi Takase – Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2025
Autism spectrum disorder is a neuropsychiatric disorder characterized by persistent deficits in social communication and social interaction and restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, or activities. The symptoms invariably appear in early childhood and cause significant impairment in social, occupational, and other important…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Perceptual Impairments, Perceptual Motor Coordination, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
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Petersen, Lori A.; McNeil, Nicole M. – Child Development, 2013
Educators often use concrete objects to help children understand mathematics concepts. However, findings on the effectiveness of concrete objects are mixed. The present study examined how two factors--perceptual richness and established knowledge of the objects--combine to influence children's counting performance. In two experiments, preschoolers…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Manipulative Materials, Computation, Knowledge Level
Even, Mary Jane – Perspectives in Adult Learning and Development, 1981
This operational theory of adult learning is based on the premise that learning is a problem-solving process involving attention, differentiation, structuring, integration, abstracting, and generalization. (Journal availability: Department of Adult Education, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506.) (SK)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adult Learning, Attention, Cognitive Processes
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Smith, Linda B.; And Others – Cognition, 1996
Examined three-year-old children's ability to generalize novel words to new instances. Suggested that children's similarity judgments and feature selection in name generalization are guided by nonstrategic attentional processes that are minimally influenced by new conceptual information. Proposed that these findings may explain the extraordinary…
Descriptors: Attention, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Generalization