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Nolan, John D. – Teachers College Record, 1973
Psychological research indicates that rote learning involves a good deal of what is commonly called conceptualizing, and conceptual learning demands a large amount of what is often considered rote repetition. (HMD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Learning Processes, Learning Theories
Hart, Leslie A. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1981
New knowledge on the evolution of the brain helps to explain human behavior and learning patterns. Threat is implicit in our school system, according to the author, and this atmosphere severely inhibits full use of the New Mammalian brain. (Author/WD)
Descriptors: Behavior, Classroom Environment, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education
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Rockler, Michael J. – Social Studies, 1974
The author analyzes the traditional, theoretical-behavioral, and theoretical-cognitive field learning theories. Since there is no general theory of learning agreed upon by all practitioners, the author develops a set of working principles to guide the working social studies teacher. (DE)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Cognitive Processes, Conditioning, Educational Objectives
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Kember, David – Higher Education, 1996
Emerging research evidence of an approach to learning that combines memorization and comprehension, particularly from Asia, is examined and possible explanations for it are discussed. It is proposed that this approach may explain the apparent paradox of high achievement is Asian cultures, where rote learning in stressed. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Cultural Context, Educational Research
Glynn, Shawn M. – 1980
The comprehension and recall of instructional text is heavily dependent upon the contexts in which information input and retrieval occur. College students (N=44) recalled the contents of a hierarchically structured text immediately after study and again six weeks later. Total meaningful recall was better when the superordinate concepts, or cues,…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Association (Psychology), Cognitive Processes, Comprehension
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Ohlsson, Stellan – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 1992
Responds individually to Shoenfeld's objections that Ohlsson, Ernst, and Rees' model is unclear; that the hypotheses about learning are unjustified; that the models have not been tested against extant data; and that it is unclear whom the model models. (MDH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Computer Simulation, Elementary Secondary Education
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
Guthrie, John T.; Baldwin, Thelma L. – 1969
The occurrence of the two allomorphs of the indefinite article in standard English ("a" before nouns or noun clauses beginning with consonant sounds and "an" before those beginning with vowel sounds) is a concept similar to those studied in the general concept formation paradigm. The acquisition of this grammatical concept was examined using 80…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation
Brown, H. Douglas – 1971
Ausubel distinguishes two kinds of human learning: (1) rote learning, relevant only to a small fraction of human learning, is the mechanistic formation of discrete, isolated traces in cognitive structure, usually through a process of conditioning; (2) meaningful learning, characteristic of most human learning, is a process of "subsuming"…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Audiolingual Methods, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes