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Transfer of Mediational Strategies in Children: The Role of Activity and Awareness During Strategy Acquisition
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Borkowski, John G.; And Others – Child Development, 1976
The ability of nursery school and first-grade children to learn and transfer a mediational strategy utilizing prepositional relationships between paired-associate objects was investigated under several strategy training conditions. (Author/JMB)
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Mediation Theory, Paired Associate Learning, Preschool Children
Transfer as a Function of Stimulus, Response, and Simultaneous Stimulus and Response Similarity
Uehling, Barbara S.; Underwood, Benton J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1972
Findings are most consistent with a mediation interpretation of transfer. (Authors)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Learning Processes, Mediation Theory, Paired Associate Learning
Syntactical Mediation and Transfer
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Schwenn, 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
Children's Shift Performance in the Absence of Dimensionality and a Learned Representational Response
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Goulet, L. R.; Williams, Kerry G. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1970
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Mediation Theory, Paired Associate Learning, Primary Education
Verbal Elaboration and the Promotion of Transfer of Training in Educable Mentally Retarded Children
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Turnure, James E.; Thurlow, Martha L. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1973
The relevance of these findings to previous failures to find transfer and their implications for educational practice are discussed. (Authors)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Mediation Theory, Mild Mental Retardation, Paired Associate Learning
Facilitating and Interfering Effects of Stimulus Naming on Children's Motor Paired-Associate Learning
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Cantor, Joan H. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1970
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Junior High School Students, Mediation Theory, Paired Associate Learning
Long-Term Transfer of a Mediational Strategy by Moderately Retarded Children
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Borkowski, John G.; Wanschura, Patricia B. – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1975
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Processes, Exceptional Child Research, Learning
Interactive Effects of Age and Familiarization in Paired-Associate Learning
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Baumeister, Alfred A.; Maisto, Albert A. – Developmental Psychology, 1974
Presents a study of paired-associative learning involving a total of 80 preschool and second grade children. Four familiarization categories of pretraining were utilized; results are discussed in terms of the effects of pretraining conditions and age on paired-associative learning and their consistency with some developmental hypotheses and phase…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Discrimination Learning, Elementary School Students, Learning Processes
Retention and Transfer of Mediation Set in Paired-Associate Learning of Educable Retarded Children
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Ross, Dorothea – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Handicapped Children, Mediation Theory, Mental Retardation