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Sensory Perception, Rationalism and Outdoor Environmental Education
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Auer, Matthew R. – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2008
There is a strong emphasis on sensory perception and "hands-on" learning in the outdoor environmental education of children. In addition, normative concerns infuse children's environmental curricula, and in particular, the notion that environmental education is not a passive undertaking; when one appreciates the essential value of the…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Learning Modalities, College Instruction, Learning Processes
Stimulus Mode and Sense Modality: What's in It for Education?
Yamamoto, Kaoru – Teachers Coll Rec, 1969
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Educational Research, Learning Processes, Perception
Language, a Bridge to Learning in Movement and Music.
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Nadon-Gabrion, Catherine – Theory into Practice, 1984
Experiences in the arts can help students develop positive attitudes towards learning. The relationship of language and the arts to the development of perceptual skills is explored. The processes of learning and its application to developing concepts in music and movement are discussed. (DF)
Descriptors: Fine Arts, Language Usage, Learning Processes, Movement Education
Intersensory Redundancy Facilitates Learning of Arbitrary Relations between Vowel Sounds and Objects in Seven-Month-Old Infants.
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Gogate, Lakshmi J.; Bahrick, Lorraine E. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1998
Investigated 7-month olds' ability to relate vowel sounds with objects when intersensory redundancy was present versus absent. Found that infants detected a mismatch in the vowel-object pairs in the moving-synchronous condition but not in the still or moving-asynchronous condition, demonstrating that temporal synchrony between vocalizations and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Habituation, Infants, Learning Processes
Experiments on a Shoestring. A Handbook of Experiments and Demonstrations for General Psychology which May be Carried Out Inexpensively and Without Access to Formal Apparatus.
Minahan, Nancy M. – 1971
This booklet is intended to provide a number of experiments and demonstrations in each area of psychology which may be carried out in situations where the instructor wishes to provide class involvement and some understanding of experimental procedure, but does not have access to the apparatus generally used in experimental psychology. The 75…
Descriptors: Attention, Cognitive Processes, Demonstrations (Educational), Experimental Psychology