THE EFFECTS OF INTERPOLATED ITEMS ON THE LEARNING AND RETENTION OF INDIVIDUAL STIMULUS-RESPONSE (S-R) UNITS IN PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING WERE INVESTIGATED. EXPERIMENTS WERE DESIGNED TO DETERMINE THE EFFECTS OF INTERFERENCE PRODUCED BY OTHER ITEMS WHICH OCCUR NATURALLY WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF A STANDARD PAIRED-ASSOCIATE TASK. IN ADDITION, SEVERAL…

AN ATTEMPT WAS MADE TO IDENTIFY AND CLASSIFY THE STRATEGIES OF INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS IN ATTAINING CONCEPTS AND TO RELATE THE VARIOUS STRATEGIES TO EFFICIENCY OF LEARNING. THE PROJECT, CONSISTING OF A SERIES OF 10 EXPERIMENTS, WAS CARRIED OUT OVER A 3-YEAR PERIOD. IN EACH SUCCESSIVE SEMESTER AND SUMMER SESSION, STUDENTS ENROLLED IN EDUCATIONAL…

PROBLEM-SOLVING THEORIES IN THREE AREAS - TRADITIONAL (STIMULUS-RESPONSE) LEARNING, COGNITIVE-GESTALT APPROACHES, AND COMPUTER AND MATHEMATICAL MODELS - WERE SUMMARIZED. RECENT EMPIRICAL STUDIES (1960-65) ON PROBLEM SOLVING WERE CATEGORIZED ACCORDING TO TYPE OF BEHAVIOR ELICITED BY PARTICULAR PROBLEM-SOLVING TASKS. ANAGRAM,…