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Bozinou, 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

Spradlin, Joseph E.; And Others – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1973
Descriptors: Adolescents, Concept Formation, Conditioning, Discrimination Learning
Gropper, George L.; And Others – 1971
The material presented here is designed to be used as a training program in the preparation, selection, and use of visual aids in instruction. Some prior training in the application of behavioral principles to the preparation of instructional materials is assumed. The program consists of a handbook and a workbook. All the information in the…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Association (Psychology), Audiovisual Aids, Audiovisual Instruction
Dickerson, Donald J. – 1968
Six experiments examined the problem-solving behavior of normal and mentally retarded (MR) children with a two-choice discrimination learning situation: the effects of stimulus similarity upon types of solutions utilized by MR children; the role of redundant cues in the discrimination learning of MR subjects with differing mental ages; the…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Children, Cognitive Processes, College Students