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Punishment: A Condition Of Learning
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Booth, James; Shamo, G. Wayne – College Student Journal, 1972
Results of the study show that punishment is an effective condition of learning. (Author)
Descriptors: Discipline, Learning, Learning Motivation, Learning Processes
Imagery and Frequency Processes in Verbal Discrimination Learning
Rowe, Edward J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1972
Results showed that imagery and frequency factors have independent and additive effects in verbal discrimination learning. (Author)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Discrimination Learning, Imagery, Learning Processes
Effects of Input Organization and Material Difficulty on Free Recall
Drew, Clifford J.; Altman, Reuben – Psychol Rep, 1970
Descriptors: College Students, Difficulty Level, Learning Processes, Memory
Efficiency of Learning When Both Incidental and Intentional Learning Occur Simultaneously
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Cohen, David B. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1970
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Cues, Learning Processes, Motivation
Abilities and Learning : A Brief Review and Discussion of Empirical Studies
Roberts, Dennis M. – J Sch Psychol, 1968
Descriptors: Ability, Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Objectives, Behavioral Science Research
The von Restorff Isolation Effect Employing One and Three Isolates
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Steil, Peter; Hynum, Leslie – Psychological Reports, 1970
Descriptors: College Students, Error Patterns, Learning Processes, Learning Theories
Effects of Test Anxiety on Acquisition, Retention, and Generalization of a Complex Verbal Task in a Classroom Situation
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Ray, William J.; And Others – Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Anxiety, College Students, Generalization, Learning Processes
Anxiety and Performance: Each Affects the Other One.
Ferguson, Eva Dreikurs – 1981
Investigators assessing the effect of motivation on performance rarely report the effect of performance on motivation. College students (N=48), preselected by anxiety scores, were tested on adjective pairs lists; additionally, anxiety was measured before and after task performance. Results showed that anxiety had a marked effect on verbal learning…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Higher Education, Influences, Interaction
Observational Learning of a Verbal Discrimination
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Carroll, Wayne R.; And Others – Psychological Reports, 1971
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Discrimination Learning, Grade 2, Information Processing
Affective Assessment, Self-Concept, and the Verbal Learning Styles of Fifth-Grade Children
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August, Gerald J.; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1975
Children prerated paired-associate nouns for likability and then learned them. The relationship between childrens' self concept and learning of affectively assessed verbal material was examined. Results indicate that learning along an affective dimension of meaningfulness can be influenced by personality-related variables such as self-concept.…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Emotional Response, Intermediate Grades, Learning Processes
The Goteborg Project on Non-Verbatim Learning.
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Gothenburg Univ. (Sweden). Inst. of Education. – 1975
The main objective of the Goteborg Project on Non-Verbatim Learning was to arrive at a commensurable description of the process and outcome of non-verbatim learning, also referred to as meaningful verbal learning. Such a description was thought to be a necessary presupposition for any explanatory models both in experiments on learning and in the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Learning Processes
THE ATTAINMENT OF CONCEPTS FROM FIGURAL AND VERBAL INSTANCES, BY INDIVIDUALS AND PAIRS.
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KLAUSMEIER, HERBERT J.; RAMSAY, JAMES G. – 1965
AN ATTEMPT WAS MADE TO CLARIFY RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN TWO VARIABLES TAKEN FROM TWO MAJOR CLASSES--A VARIABLE RELATED TO CONDITIONS OF LEARNING AND A STIMULUS VARIABLE. SPECIFICALLY, THE STUDY DEALT WITH CONCEPT ATTAINMENT BY INDIVIDUALS AND IDENTIFIED THROUGH FIGURAL OR VERBAL INSTANCES. PERFORMANCE WAS ASSESSED WITH FIVE DEPENDENT VARIABLES--TIME…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Concept Formation, Concept Teaching
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
STUDYING LEARNING PATTERNS IN MENTAL RETARDATES.
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CANDLAND, DOUGLAS K.; MANNING, SIDNEY ALPERN – 1967
FIVE EXPERIMENTS WERE CONDUCTED IN AN ATTEMPT TO ISOLATE SPECIFIC LEARNING PATTERNS IN CHILDREN OF VARYING DEGREES OF MENTAL RETARDATION AND TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE PHYLOGENETIC DEVELOPMENT OF INTELLIGENCE. FACTORS STUDIED WERE THOSE KNOWN TO INFLUENCE LEARNING IN NORMAL CHILDREN AND ADULTS--KIND OF REINFORCEMENT (VERBAL OR…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Processes, Exceptional Child Research, Females