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Blake, Milton – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1973
Research supported by a postgraduate scholarship from the National Research Council of Canada. (RS)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Consonants, Experiments
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Sperber, Richard D.; And Others – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1976
Investigated in two experiments involving 15- and 16-year-old mentally retarded students was knowledge of conceptual categories as reflected by semantic priming effects. (Author/IM)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Exceptional Child Research
Hayes-Roth, Barbara; Hayes-Roth, Frederick – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1977
The "property-set model" is proposed for concept learning and subsequent recognition and classification of old and new exemplars. In an experimental evaluation of alternative models, the property-set model was the best predictor of both recognition and classification performance. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Language Processing
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Anderson, John R.; Paulson, Rebecca – Cognitive Psychology, 1978
To determine whether different long-term memory representations are necessary for verbal and visual material, subjects studied faces composed of visual features or verbal facts composed of concepts. Findings showed interference between verbal and pictorial information, and supported the ACT theory that pictorial and verbal materials are stored…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Concept Formation, Higher Education
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Schneider, Gary A.; Giambra, Leonard M. – Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Difficulty Level, Information Processing
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Eifermann, Rivka; Steinitz, Ruth – Journal of General Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Concept Formation