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Direct linkGeorge, David N.; Oltean, Bianca P. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2020
Learning to categorize perceptually similar stimuli can result in people becoming more sensitive to differences along perceptual dimensions that are relevant to category membership and/or less sensitive to equivalent differences along irrelevant perceptual dimensions. These effects of acquired distinctiveness and acquired equivalence may be caused…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Associative Learning, Learning Processes
Thomas, David R.; and others – J Exp Psychol, 1970
Descriptors: Attention, Discrimination Learning, Learning Processes, Learning Theories
Schworm, Ronald W.; Abelseth, Janet L. – Education and Training of the Mentally Retarded, 1978
The authors purport that before teaching tasks to individuals with severe learning problems, it may be necessary to deliberately plan for and systematically evaluate the factors of selective attention, information feedback, retention, and generalization for each lesson. (Author/SBH)
Descriptors: Attention, Educational Methods, Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education
