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Ash, Ivan K.; Jee, Benjamin D.; Wiley, Jennifer – Journal of Problem Solving, 2012
Gestalt psychologists proposed two distinct learning mechanisms. Associative learning occurs gradually through the repeated co-occurrence of external stimuli or memories. Insight learning occurs suddenly when people discover new relationships within their prior knowledge as a result of reasoning or problem solving processes that re-organize or…
Descriptors: Intuition, Learning Processes, Metacognition, Associative Learning
SMITH, EDWARD – 1965
THE EFFECTS OF FAMILIARITY ON THE PROCESSING OF STIMULUS AND MEMORIAL INFORMATION WERE INVESTIGATED IN TWO TASKS--ONE WHICH SUPPOSEDLY REQUIRED ONLY THE PERCEPTUAL RECOGNITION OF EACH STIMULUS WORD (E TASK) AND ONE WHICH REQUIRED A MEANINGFUL CATEGORIZATION OF EACH STIMULUS WORD (C TASK). FIFTY UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDERGRADUATES WHO WERE PAID…
Descriptors: Classification, College Students, Information Processing, Memory
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Fillenbaum, Samuel – Language and Speech, 1971
Descriptors: College Students, Comprehension, Error Patterns, Information Processing
Deffenbacher, Kenneth A. – Psychol Rep, 1970
Descriptors: College Students, Concept Formation, Information Processing, Learning Processes
McCauley, Charley – Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1974
In the present study, an attempt was made to determine whether temporal patterning and speach processes comparable to those obtained with categorized materials are involved in the recall of higher order units formed intraexperimentally. (Author)
Descriptors: College Students, Data Analysis, Diagrams, Experimental Psychology
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Kopiez, Reinhard; Lee, Ji In – Music Education Research, 2006
This study investigates the relationship between selected predictors of achievement in playing unrehearsed music (sight reading) and the changing complexity of sight reading tasks. The question under investigation is, how different variables gain or lose significance as sight reading stimuli become more difficult. Fifty-two piano major graduates…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cognitive Ability, Stimuli, Memory
Katz, Leonard; Wicklund, David A. – 1972
The effects of types of both memorized items and probes (digit, word, and dot pattern), using Sternberg's character-recognition procedure, were studied. Reaction time (RT) was a linear function of the set size of memorized items consistent with a serial search model. Response type (positive or negative) affected the encoding time (intercept of RT…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Educational Research, Higher Education
Whitehall, Richard P.; Redding, Juliette L. – 1970
The theoretical and practical structure of a learning skills program based on an organization model is described. The first section of the paper deals with the description and implication of the program. Ideographic questioning and examination of a group of students and their study habits led to the development of an information processing model…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Concept Formation
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ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1978
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 12 titles deal with the following topics: advance organizers; a comparison of the effectiveness and efficiency of behavioral objectives and sample tests; anaphoric nominal substitution and its relationship to reading…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Advance Organizers, Annotated Bibliographies, Behavioral Objectives