Written by a kindergarten teacher in a school for blind children, the booklet is designed to give parents insights and guidelines to help prepare their visually handicapped child for school. Part I reviews characteristics of learning. Part II focuses on how children learn. A third section, which makes up most of the document, offers guidelines in…

THE PURPOSE OF THIS PROJECT WAS TO FIND (1) A LEARNING SITUATION IN WHICH THERE IS NO INTIMATION OF A FUTURE TRANSFER TEST AND YET (2) DEMONSTRATE TRANSFER FROM THE LEARNING BY A STABLE DIFFERENCE IN THE PERFORMANCE OF CONTROLS IN THE SECOND TEST. THE TECHNIQUE OF CRYPTOGRAPHY PERMITTED TESTING OF THE HYPOTHESIS. THE SUBJECTS WERE COLLEGE…

The central aim of this paper and its projected successors is to prove in detail that stimulus-response theory, or at least a mathematically precise version, can give an account of the learning of many phrase-structure grammars. Section 2 is concerned with standard notions of finite and probabilistic automata. An automaton is defined as a device…

This book is devoted to describing, not explaining or theorizing about effective learning. One chapter relates numerous incidents involving very young children, to illustrate various learning styles and ways in which experimentation contributes to learning. Other chapters discuss children's talk, reading, sports, and art and math. The final…

Seven rhesus monkeys reared on diets high in phenylalanine to induce phenylketonuria (PKU--a metabolic disorder associated with mental retardation if untreated) were compared with normal, pair-fed, and younger controls; frontal brain-lesioned monkeys; and those raised on high-tryptophan diets in three object discrimination tasks. (Author)

The state of education cannot be improved without a model of the learner, yet the model is not fixed but varies. A choice of one reflects many political, practical, and cultural issues, but the best choice may be an awareness of the possible variety. (KH)

This experiment was designed to examine the reinforcing effects not only of similar-dissimilar attitude statements, but also names of liked-disliked persons in a discrimination learning task. (Author)

Students given sufficient information to be able to design chemical separations of cations performed better on a post-test, and on a four-month retention test on chemical knowledge and laboratory procedures, than students given a detailed laboratory guide listing the steps to follow. (AL)

Reviews processes accounting for the success of awards and incentives in increasing the speed of learning. Presents 10 principles of a well designed incentive program. (LRA)

A Louisiana architect has created plans for a unique supplementary learning environment consisting of five circular buildings featuring a planetarium, an indoor display of small animals in their native habitat, an indoor pond, a library, a media center, and an auditorium. (Author/MLF)

According to traditional views, basic and subordinate concepts elicit perceptual information, superordinate concepts abstract information. Two experiments showed that also superordinate concepts activate perceptual and contextual information. In Experiment 1 participants evaluated the adequacy of Scene- and Object-like locations ascribed to basic…

The period from adolescence through young adulthood is one of great promise and vulnerability. As teenagers approach maturity, they must develop and apply the skills and habits necessary to navigate adulthood and compete in an ever more technological and globalized world. But as parents and researchers have long known, there is a crucial dichotomy…