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Gray, Linda R.; And Others – 1977
The purpose of this study was to further investigate performance differences between reflective and impulsive subjects on a recognition memory task. Other researchers have proposed that these differences are based on visual analysis and that they are relatively independent of verbal processes. To test this contention, a sentence recognition task…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, College Students, Learning Processes
Peer reviewedAtkinson, Richard C. – American Psychologist, 1975
Discusses the keyword method, which divided vocabulary learning into two stages: (1) the subject associates the spoken foreign word with the keyword, and association that is formed quickly because of the acoustic similarity between the words, and, (2) the subject forms a mental image of the keyword "interacting" with the English translation.…
Descriptors: Experimental Psychology, Learning Processes, Learning Theories, Mnemonics
Prescott, Peggy-Lynn – 1976
The effects of visual, and verbal/visual, preorganizers and postorganizers on the learning of unfamiliar information were evaluated in an experimental study involving 153 community college students. Pre- and postorganizers were used in connection with a 20-minute lesson on the theory of communication. A 25-item, multiple-choice criterion test was…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Community Colleges, Doctoral Dissertations, Learning Processes
Download full textSchuster, Don, Ed. – Journal of the Society for Accelerative Learning and Teaching, 1983
The spring-summer and fall-winter 1983 numbers of the journal include these articles: "Body-Mind Integration Through Yoga" (Marie Paulyn); "The Effectiveness of Three Classroom Teaching Methods: Programmed Instruction, Simulation, and Guided Fantasy" (Elizabeth B. Groff, Gary F. Render); "Teaching Relaxation in School: A…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), Classification, Classroom Techniques, Curriculum Development
