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Rogers, Pamela W. – Percept Mot Skills, 1970
Studies the effect the degree of alliteration has on verbal learning, using four degrees of alliteration and three retention intervals. (MB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Language Research, Learning Processes, Learning Theories
Martin, Maryanne – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1977
Two experiments are described. One measured performance of subjects on pairs of concurrent verbal tasks, monitoring sentences for certain items while reading. Secondary task performance combined with a primary task is proportional to its performance in isolation. The second experiment checked certain results of the first. (CHK)
Descriptors: Attention, Cognitive Processes, Language Processing, Language Research
Download full textLane, Joseph Manning, Jr. – 1970
The effects of three types of pretraining in the use of syntactical verbal mediators on subsequent paired-associate performance were investigated. Subjects were 40 Negro and 40 white first graders randomly assigned to one of four groups. Condition 1 consisted of pretraining in both "mediation" instruction (experimenter gave subjects a sentence…
Descriptors: Black Youth, Disadvantaged Youth, Grade 1, Language Research
Spoehr, Kathryn T. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1978
Three experiments use a tachistoscopic word recognition task to investigate how skilled readers covert visual input into a speech-related or phonological code during reading. (Author/NCR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Language Processing, Language Research, Learning Processes
Reeback, Robert T. – 1968
Seven 18- to 32-month-old children received from seven to 26 experimental sessions each between October 1966 and April 1967. A session lasted from 5 to 15 minutes and concerned control over the verbal responses of the children with token-operated reinforcement devices. In order to make the results of the experimental sessions meaningful, an…
Descriptors: Conditioning, Infant Behavior, Infants, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedKjeldergaard, Paul M. – Review of Educational Research, 1961
This review of professional literature on the psychology of language summarizes and interprets selected books and articles published during the period 1957-60. The literature, selected on the basis of importance and applicability to education, is considered under the following headings: theories, research techniques, verbal learning, and…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Bibliographies, Conditioning, Electronic Equipment
Farmer, Capen – 1967
This study examines ways in which children verbalize emotional experiences at successive age levels. Four groups of 16 boys and girls each drawn from the second, fourth, sixth, and eighth grades of a middle class private school in New York City were asked to describe happiness, sadness, love, anger, and fear. Raw protocols were scored according to…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Child Development, Communication Skills
Wells, Gordon – 1986
Based on a longitudinal study of language development, this book charts the language development of 32 British children from shortly after their first birthdays to the end of their elementary education, and explores a number of questions related to this development. Chapter 1 describes the children and their families, chapter 2 discusses the…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment
