Based on the author's Ph. D. dissertation submitted to the Department of Psychology at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Sixty-five learning disabled (LD), educable mentally retarded (EMR), and normal second graders were compared on their ability to profit from instruction on a balance scale task and on their ability to transfer their learning to two new tasks. During individual training, the retarded group required an average of 9.8 hints, the LD group an average…

THIS PAPER ATTEMPTS TO REVIEW THE STATUS OF DRUGS IN THE AREA OF LEARNING DISABILITY. THE PEDIATRICIAN'S TRAINING MUST INCLUDE EXPOSURE TO PRACTICAL AND THEORETICAL PROBLEMS OF LEARNING. OF INTEREST TO THE PEDIATRICIAN IS THE USE OF DRUGS WHICH MODIFY LEARNING RESPONSES. THESE DRUGS ARE CLASSIFIED AS GENERAL STIMULANTS, SPECIFIC STIMULANTS,…

Reported are the results of a study which investigated the influence of certain variables within the method of individually guided discovery in mathematics. The independent variables considered were the concepts of ordered partitions and permutations, the level of consolidation or practice after discovery, and the teachers. Also considered were…

This speech was delivered at a conference of student body presidents and college and university presidents. The major purpose of the conference was to help open and maintain clear channels of communication between those who run the colleges and universities, and those who attend them. The major points of the speech were: (1) education is not over…

Reported are the suggestions indicated by research studies to seven questions concerning what is known about the teaching and learning of mathematics. (1) What factors influence the learner's achievement? Answer: Age, intelligence, and the amount of structuring present in the materials. (2) Are there guides for motivation? Answer: Games, concrete…

The first part of this paper briefly describes two studies concerned with cognitive processes in children. One study examined the ability of Kindergarten and First Grade children to apply a simple rule of logical inference in order to solve a two-object discrimination problem. Specifically, the rule was of the form "if A, then not B." A second…

The current study was designed to test Lathrop and Richmond's (1967) conclusion that perceived learning is an important factor in faculty evaluations. A 17 item questionnaire including the perceived learning area was administered to 470 students (2 classes in each of 8 departments) at Chico State College. Separate multiple regression equations for…

Three different strategies of choosing items for presentation in a simple list learning situation are compared. The instructional task was to teach the correct response to a number of stimulus items, using a paired-associate teaching procedure. Only one item could be presented on a given trial and the total number of trials was limited. The…

This series of four studies investigated the abilities of children in grades five through eight to perform on a reasoning test written in both Ikonic and Symbolic form. An abstract reasoning test which had been shown to be highly correlated with success in mathematics was rewritten into Ikonic form. Children whose ages bridge the gap between the…

A total of 48 fifth-grade and 30 nursery-school subjects were administered picture pairs in a discrimination learning experiment. In addition to a control group, one group of subjects (pre-choice) was instructed to pronounce both items before choosing one, and another group (post-choice) was told to say both items after choosing one. The…

Examined was the relationship between dependency behavior and learning in educable mentally retarded (EMR) children. Population included 120 subjects equally divided by sex into two groups of retardates and normals and subdivided into socially reinforced and non-reinforced Ss. The task measured overt or instrumental dependency (ID). Electronic…

The unique capabilities of film and research findings in educational psychology, learning psychology, and cost effectiveness indicate that film is an asset to the educational process. Sufficient resources and continued training should be provided to enable teachers to use the most effective film at the optimal time. (CMV)