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Tennyson, Robert D. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1973
Results indicated that negative instances were an integral part of concept acquisiton. The relationship between the positive and negative instances was based upon similarity of irrelevant attributes and sentence difficulty. (Author)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Difficulty Level, Grade 7, Relevance (Information Retrieval)
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Rosenthal, Ted L.; Zimmerman, Barry J. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1972
Spontaneous and model-induced production of a valuational style of inquiry was studied in 128 third-grade children. (Authors)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Expectation, Grade 3, Imitation
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Carroll, Wayne R.; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1972
Children's imitation of a model's sentence structure, word content and use of present, imperfect or future tense verbs was studied in third and fourth graders. (Authors)
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grammar, Imitation, Language Acquisition
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Venezky, Richard L. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1973
The high degree of predictability of Finnish orthography is reflected in a uniformly high ability of school children by the end of the first grade to pronounce unfamiliar words from their spellings. (Author)
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Beginning Reading, Finnish, Orthographic Symbols
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Williams, Joanna – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1975
Reproduction training improved performance only on the reproduction test; discrimination training improved performance only on the discrimination test. The effects of discrimination were seen both on forms used in training and on other similar forms, while the effects of reproduction training were seen only on trained forms. (Author/BJG)
Descriptors: Black Youth, Discrimination Learning, Eye Hand Coordination, Lower Class