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Download full textBozinou, Efthymia; Goulet, L. R. – 1970
This study investigated the spontaneous use of verbal mediators in discrimination learning, the transfer of mediators to a free recall task, and the effects of a pretraining task on performance. The discrimination tasks required nursery school children (80) to: (1) sort three instances each of two different concepts in a conceptually consistent…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Discrimination Learning, Learning Processes, Mediation Theory
Gross, Thomas F.; Hayes, Donald S. – 1978
This study assesses the effects of visual and verbal rehearsal on the problem solving efficiency of preschool children. The study examines the use of stimulus pretraining designed to induce verbal rehearsal and compares the effectiveness of induced verbal rehearsal with the effectiveness of induced visual rehearsal. Fifty-four middle class…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Information Seeking, Learning Processes, Mediation Theory
