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BLACK, HARVEY B. – 1962
THIS STUDY INVOLVED THE IDENTIFICATION OF (1) RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN REINFORCEMENT AND PHYSICAL COMPONENTS OF COMPLEX PICTORIAL STIMULI IN DISCRIMINATION LEARNING AND (2) VARIABLES RELATED TO PRIOR EXPERIENCE WITH PICTORIAL STIMULI USED IN DISCRIMINATION LEARNING. LINE SHAPES WERE USED AS STIMULI. THESE SHAPES WERE VARIED BY ADDING SOME LINES THAT…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Positive Reinforcement, Programed Instructional Materials, Responses
Download full textCarpenter, Genevieve C. – 1973
A report is presented which relates to a general hypothesis suggested by previous data on visual response to faces that in the first weeks of life infants develop expectations regarding the human face. Three predictions were made: (1) Silent human faces would elicit less direct regard than faces accompanied by voices; (2) A familiar face would…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Discrimination Learning, Females, Infant Behavior
LYNCH, DANIEL O. – 1966
THE EFFECTS OF INSTRUCTIONS, TYPE OF LABEL, TYPE OF CONCEPT, AND SEQUENCE OF CONCEPTS BY TYPE UPON CONCEPT IDENTIFICATION WERE INVESTIGATED IN THIS STUDY. PERFORMANCE WAS ANALYZED IN TERMS OF FOUR TYPES OF TEST ITEMS. INSTRUCTION, FOCUSING ON THE CONCEPT TO BE ATTAINED AND THE CONCEPT NATURE, WAS FOUND TO FACILITATE CONCEPT IDENTIFICATION…
Descriptors: College Students, Concept Formation, Instructional Improvement, Learning Processes
Dorman, Lynn; And Others – 1971
Visual fixation on one of two blank targets was reinforced with either visual or auditory stimuli in one of 3 intensity sequences: (1) low, medium, high; (2) medium, high, low; and (3) high, low, medium. An analysis of variance of learning scores for the 48 14-week-old infants resulted in a significant interaction of intensity and order and in a…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Eye Fixations, Infant Behavior, Learning Processes
Peer reviewedOscar-Berman, Marlene; Bakoplus-Banos, Janis – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Discrimination Learning, Eye Fixations, Eye Movements
White, Sheldon H. – 1972
This appendix includes seven papers which focus on various aspects of the learning processes of children ages 5-7: (1) S. Thompson, "Transitions to concrete operations: A survey of Piaget's writings" (in outline form); (2) S. H. White, "Changes in learning processes in the late preschool years," an examination of cross-cultural…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention Span, Auditory Discrimination, Cognitive Development
