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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
Peer reviewedBreger, Ilana – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1970
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Nonverbal Communication
Sigel, Irving E. – 1971
This document presents some of the major challenges facing Developmental Psychologists. Research revealed that middle class children tended to respond in classification tasks to objects and pictures as equivalents, whereas low class black children tended not to do so. The reason for this was investigated. This investigation of the course of…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Blacks, Classification, Cognitive Processes
