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Download full textTurnure, James E.; Thurlow, Martha L. – 1972
Reported were two studies designed to clarify the effects of verbal elaboration on children's learning. Study I was undertaken to replicate, with controlled training times, an earlier investigation of the effects of three types of extended verbal elaboration (sentences, semantic paragraphs, and syntactic paragraphs). Trials to criterion analyses…
Descriptors: Learning, Mediation Theory, Paired Associate Learning, Paragraphs
Peer reviewedSchwenn, Elizabeth A.; Davidson, Robert E. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1970
The relative effectiveness of sentence and conjunction contexts in reducing negative transfer and facilitating learning is empirically investigated. (Author)
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Learning Motivation, Learning Processes, Mediation Theory
Peer reviewedLebrato, Mary T.; Ellis, Norman R. – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1974
Three experiments assessed the relative effectiveness of an imagery mnemonic on the paired-associate learning of 24 nonretarded and 24 educable mentally retarded adolescents. (Author/MC)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Exceptional Child Research, Imagery, Mediation Theory
Taylor, Arthur M.; And Others – 1971
The effects of two types of elaboration training (imagery and sentence generation) on the paired associate learning of 32 educable mentally retarded children (aged 9 to 13 years were compared over two levels of verbalization (none and overt). Each S was first tested on a warmup list, then trained to generate elaborations, and finally given two…
Descriptors: Children, Exceptional Child Research, Imagery, Learning
Thurlow, Martha L.; Turnure, James E. – 1971
The relative effectiveness of three types of elaboration (sentences, semantic paragraphs, and syntactic paragraphs) on paired associate learning in 75 educable mentally retarded Ss was tested under list lengths of eight, 12, 16 and 24 pairs. For all lists except the eight pair list, the elaborators were found to be equally and highly effective as…
Descriptors: Children, Exceptional Child Research, Literature Reviews, Mediation Theory
