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Download full textMcHoes, L. N.; Block, Karen K. – 1971
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of hypothesis testing instructions compared to brief instructions on the speed of shift problem solution of grade school age subjects, in order to provide information on the development of hypothesis testing behavior in children and the sampling characteristics of hypothesis testing in these…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Concept Teaching, Elementary School Students, Hypothesis Testing
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Direct linkMaddox, W. Todd; Filoteo, J. Vincent; Lauritzen, J. Scott; Connally, Emily; Hejl, Kelli D. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2005
Three experiments were conducted that provide a direct examination of within-category discontinuity manipulations on the implicit, procedural-based learning and the explicit, hypothesis-testing systems proposed in F. G. Ashby, L. A. Alfonso-Reese, A. U. Turken, and E. M. Waldron's (1998) competition between verbal and implicit systems model.…
Descriptors: Experimental Psychology, Cognitive Processes, Learning Processes, Hypothesis Testing
Ginther, Dean W.; Brazas, Adam T. – 1986
The contribution of decentration as an underlying component of discrimination learning and discrimination shift behavior was investigated in this study. In addition, the effect of verbal labeling and the relationship of academic achievement to discrimination learning and decentration was considered. The subjects were 120 first grade students who…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Discrimination Learning, Grade 1
