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Emotional Factors in the Learning and Nonspecific Transfer of White and Black Students.

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Rychlak, Joseph F. – 1971

This research contrasts the learning effects of an affective dimension of meaningfulness with the word-quality of consonant-vowel-consonant trigrams. Subject rated trigrams for both "association value"--having word-quality versus lacking word-quality--and "reinforcement value"--liking versus disliking the trigram regardless of word quality. Paired…

Descriptors: Black Students, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Tests, College Students

The Cultural Context of Learning and Thinking: An Exploration in Experimental Anthropology.

Cole, Michael; And Others – 1971

After intensively studying for several years the thinking processes of members of a tribal group in Western Africa, the Kpelle, the authors examine the relation between culture and cognitive development. The following issues are discussed: (1) an analysis of the terms "culture" and "cognition"; (2) an ethnographic description of the Kpelle…

Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Associative Learning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes