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Phye, Gary; Baller, William – J Educ Psychol, 1970
Descriptors: College Students, Information Utilization, Learning Processes, Psychology
Download full textRamsay, James G. – 1968
This reports the effects of the number of relevant stimulus dimensions and figural versus verbal stimuli on the concept learning ability of college students. Results force a consideration of mediational variables in explaining this form of cognitive learning. A set of verbal materials analogous to a set of dimensionalized figural materials was…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Concept Formation, Learning Processes
Meara, Naomi M.; Wixson, Stanton E. – 1970
The study is based on the assumption that certain noncognitive factors influence the learning process, and attempts to tentatively isolate what such variables might be. Subjects were 93 students enrolled in a General Psychology course. Each completed the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, and was then assigned randomly to one of 4 treatment groups: (1)…
Descriptors: College Students, Learning, Learning Motivation, Learning Processes
Peer reviewedWaite, Carole J.; And Others – Psychological Reports, 1971
Descriptors: College Students, Learning Processes, Learning Theories, Memory
Peer reviewedAndre, Thomas; kulhavy, Raymond W. – Psychological Reports, 1971
Descriptors: Cluster Grouping, College Students, Comprehension, Learning Processes
Peer reviewedJensen, Larry; And Others – Psychological Reports, 1971
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Context Clues, Inhibition
Drew, Clifford J.; Altman, Reuben – Psychol Rep, 1970
Descriptors: College Students, Difficulty Level, Learning Processes, Memory
Peer reviewedSnyder, C. R.; Omens, Alan E. – American Journal of Psychology, 1975
The implications for education are discussed in an experiment that measured student desire to achieve either at a high or low standard in the classroom. (Editor/RK)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Flow Charts, Learning Processes
Gardiner, John M.; Klee, Hilary – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1976
A study is reported describing an output-monitoring phenomenon in free recall and establishing that subjects have accurate knowledge concerning their previous output performance. Implications with respect to other known memory phenomena are discussed. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Language Research, Learning Processes
Peer reviewedSteil, Peter; Hynum, Leslie – Psychological Reports, 1970
Descriptors: College Students, Error Patterns, Learning Processes, Learning Theories
Tzeng, Ovid J. L. – 1974
The purpose of this study was to determine if being next-in-line to perform would render strong effects on the student's storage and retrieval of information. The subjects were 45 undergraduate students enrolled in an introductory educational psychology course. Fifteen subjects were arranged in a large circle and were told that they were going to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Educational Research, Learning Processes
McConkie, George – 1973
This paper, presented at the 1973 meeting of the American Education Research Association, discusses some of the studies conducted in the area of learning from prose. The first study dealt with pooling independent sentences into groups of related sentences and preparing passages by stringing these sentences together. College students then read one…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Learning, Learning Processes
Eggen, Paul; Kauchak, Don – 1976
The effect of supplementary questions on learning from textual materials was investigated in a sample of 94 college juniors. Each subject was given a 1,500-word passage describing the concept of measurement. One treatment group was asked to identify characteristics of the concept; another was asked to identify examples from the text; a third…
Descriptors: College Students, Concept Formation, Higher Education, Learning Processes
Peer reviewedUnikel, Irving P.; Strain, G. S. – Psychological Reports, 1971
Descriptors: College Students, Generalization, Learning Processes, Learning Theories
Peer reviewedRay, William J.; And Others – Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Anxiety, College Students, Generalization, Learning Processes
