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Peer reviewedLevin, Joel R.; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1975
Experiments showed that in verbal discrimination learning imaging the referent of the correct item was more facilitative than vocalizing the correct item, as long as the imagery structure was executed in the company of relevant motor activity. No difference between the two strategies was found in pictorial discrimination learning. (Author/BJG)
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Educational Practices, Elementary Education, Imagery
Download full textGhatala, Elizabeth S.; Levin, Joel R. – 1974
The present study affords an explanation for the consistent, but not always statistically significant, pattern showing superior verbal discrimination learning performance for low- as compared to high-frequency words. In a frequency judgment task it was found that relative to high-frequency words, low-frequency words for which subjects (sixth…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Discrimination Learning, Educational Research, Elementary Education
