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Jensen, Jeffrey P. – Probe, 1974
Five-year-old children who failed pretests of conservation of Number, Length, Mass, and Liquid Amount, but who possessed counting ability and knowledge of the terms "same" and "different" underwent Training and Conservation Posttests. (Author/CS)
Descriptors: Conservation (Concept), Intervention, Learning Processes, Preschool Children
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
Peer reviewedGollin, Eugene S.; Schadler, Margaret – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1972
Experiment was designed to teach the oddity principle to preschool age children whose age peers in earlier studies have had difficulty learning the oddity principle. (Authors)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cues, Learning Processes, Preschool Children
Peer reviewedGoethals, George R.; Zanna, Mark P. – Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1979
One initial and two follow-up experiments were conducted to test social comparison predictions regarding influence processes related to risk taking in groups. Subjects were 137 male and female college students. (MP)
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedDean, Raymond S.; And Others – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1983
In experiment one, subjects learned a word list in blocked or random forms of auditory/visual change. In experiment two, high- and low-conceptual rigid subjects read passages in shift conditions or nonshift, exclusively in auditory or visual modes. A shift in modality provided a powerful release from proactive interference. (Author/CM)
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Cognitive Style, Educational Psychology, Higher Education
Ginther, Dean W.; Brazas, Adam T. – 1986
The contribution of decentration as an underlying component of discrimination learning and discrimination shift behavior was investigated in this study. In addition, the effect of verbal labeling and the relationship of academic achievement to discrimination learning and decentration was considered. The subjects were 120 first grade students who…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Discrimination Learning, Grade 1
Shapiro, Martin M.; And Others – 1970
Learning behavior of young children of contrasting socioeconomic backgrounds is examined in this study, which poses the question: what are the necessary or sufficient environmental conditions for the establishment of identifiable patterns of behavior? Socioeconomic level (SEL), the principal independent variable, was defined in terms of parental…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Concept Formation, Conditioning, Disadvantaged Youth
