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Miller, Adam; Keesey, James C. – Journal of General Psychology, 1974
An investigation is presented of the degree to which learning sets were developed during formation of twenty successive concepts. (Author)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Conceptual Schemes, Fundamental Concepts, Generalization

Karpf, Ronald J.; And Others – Journal of General Psychology, 1974
Appropriate namings and selections of four focal hues and eight intermediate hues, and relationships between them, increase with the age of 3, 4 and 5-year-old nursery school children. (Author)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Color, Learning Processes, Preschool Children

Peterson, Candida – Journal of General Psychology, 1973
Descriptors: College Students, Concept Formation, Conceptual Schemes, Educational Research

Bergquist, William H.; Klemm, Horst D. – Journal of General Psychology, 1973
One hundred and two subjects were given three verbal concept acquisition tasks. Repression, High defensiveness, and low psychoastenia were found to be significantly associated with high acquisition scores. (Author/KM)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Concept Formation, Learning Processes, Personality

McGinley, Hugh; Layton, Barry – Journal of General Psychology, 1973
The purpose of this experiment was to see if there would be a conditioning of evaluative meaning effect when a procedure was used that reduced contingency and demand awareness. The results lend support to Staats' conditioning of meaning and attitude theory. (Author/KM)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Conditioning, Educational Theories, Evaluative Thinking

Berry, Franklin M.; Jones, Quana R. – Journal of General Psychology, 1973
Descriptors: Black Youth, Illiteracy, Learning Processes, Paired Associate Learning

Dorsey, Thomas; And Others – Journal of General Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: College Students, Difficulty Level, Females, Learning Processes

Peterson, James M.; Farley, Frank H. – Journal of General Psychology, 1974
Resultant Achievement Motivation scores employed as predictors of performance under conditions of differing rates of informational feedback in a concept learning task were found to be positively related to learning in a 100 percent feedback condition. (Author/KM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Concept Formation, Feedback

Hicks, Robert E.; Young, Robert K. – Journal of General Psychology, 1973
A list of 25 nouns containing five sets of five words beginning with a different initial letter was presented for five learning trials. Categorized lists were recalled better than uncategorized; free recall was better than cued. (Author/KM)
Descriptors: Classification, Input Output, Learning Processes, Memory

Newman, Murray A.; Edmonston, Leon P. – Journal of General Psychology, 1973
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Middle Class, Preschool Children, Psychological Studies

Miller, Adam – Journal of General Psychology, 1973
Forty participants who learned ten sentences and who were tested for recall and ability to generate new sentences demonstrated that the closer the sentence order was to natural language order, the better the recall and new sentence generation. (Author/KM)
Descriptors: Language Ability, Language Patterns, Learning Processes, Psycholinguistics

Burke, Ronald J. – Journal of General Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Ability, Anxiety, Cognitive Processes, Data Analysis

Adcock, Ngaire V.; Mangan, G. L. – Journal of General Psychology, 1970
Descriptors: Attention, College Students, Conditioning, Hypothesis Testing

May, William W. – Journal of General Psychology, 1972
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Concept Formation

Fergenson, P. Everett; Teichner, Warren H. – Journal of General Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Cues, Discrimination Learning
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