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GIBSON, ELEANOR J. – 1966
BOTH COGNITIVELY-ORIENTED AND RESPONSE-ORIENTED THEORIES OF PERCEPTUAL LEARNING ARE DISCUSSED AND CONTRASTED WITH A STIMULUS-ORIENTED THEORY. PERCEPTUAL LEARNING IS DEFINED AS AN INCREASE IN SPECIFICITY OF DISCRIMINATION OF THE STIMULUS INPUT. THE AUTHOR DESCRIBED WHAT IS LEARNED IN PERCEPUTAL LEARNING AS () THE DISTINCTIVE FEATURES OF THINGS, (2)…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Discrimination Learning, Learning Experience, Learning Theories
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Humphreys, Glyn W. – British Journal of Psychology, 1981
A comparison was made between two procedures for testing whether an alpha-numeric character, which was pattern masked to prevent awareness, could access higher-order information concerning its category. (Author)
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Processes, Learning Theories, Patterned Responses
Barton, A. K. – Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1973
Part of a doctoral dissertation submitted at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas. (DS)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Diagrams, Educational Psychology, Educational Research
Chechile, Richard A.; Gordon, Tracey – 1976
A study was performed to investigate the storage and retrieval dynamics that occur during paired-associate acquisition by means of the storage-retrieval separation technique discussed recently by Chechile & Meyer (1976). Thirty subjects learned an 18-item paired-associate list to a criterion of three perfect trials. In the test phase of each…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes, Information Processing, Learning Processes
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Glidden, Laraine Masters – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1977
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Exceptional Child Research
Johnson, Mitzi M. S.; Greenwald, Anthony G. – 1985
An earlier study showed that responses are remembered better when subjects produce them from cues, than when subjects read cue-response pairs. The decided memory advantage for generated targets relative to read ones is known as the generation effect. The present research is designed to study the generation effect for cues, following a…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes, Cues
Nunnally, Jum C. – 1968
The research concerned the association of neutral objects, such as nonsense syllables, with rewards, such as money and candy, in children. Thirty-six subjects were obtained from grades two through six of local public elementary schools in Nashville, Tennessee. Associations between neutral objects and rewards were formed in a task concerning…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Attention Control, Cognitive Processes, Discrimination Learning