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Download full textMayer, Richard E.; Greeno, James G. – 1974
In the pair of experiments reported here the authors investigated the relationship between meaningfulness of problem statements and subjects' use of these statements in problem-solving tasks. Subjects (96 university students) were required to memorize meaningful formulae such as "volume = area x height" or corresponding symbolic formulae such as…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Information Processing, Instruction
Pascual-Leone, Juan; Smith, June – J Exp Child Psychol, 1969
"A new sort of concept attainment or decoding-encoding experimental paradigm based on the model is developed and an experiment on 5-, 7-, and 9-year-olds is reported. (Author)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Information Processing
Peer reviewedShor, Ronald E. – Journal of General Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Information Processing
