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Houtz, John C.; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1973
Results demonstrate that the relationship between the structure of positive and negative instances within a learning series is also critical to concept learning when the concepts are presented in a nondimensioned way. (Authors/CB)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Grade 8, Performance Factors, Relevance (Information Retrieval)
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Salvatore, Anthony P. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1972
Descriptors: Aphasia, Disabilities, Exceptional Child Research, Males
Runquist, Peggy A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1973
Results indicate that responses are not organized per se, but that response grouping is mediated by stimulus categories. (Author)
Descriptors: Cluster Grouping, Paired Associate Learning, Performance Factors, Recall (Psychology)
Bauer, David H. – Measurement and Evaluation in Guidance, 1973
This article emphasizes identifying for the practitioner those qualities of situations and individuals which have been shown to have major effects on performance in testing situations. Recommendations for testing practices are made, and the dangers inherent in acceptance of test results as the sole basis for personnel decisions are pointed out.…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Guessing (Tests), Individual Differences, Motivation
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Rosenfeld, Howard M.; Gunnell, Pamela – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1973
Study designed to measure effects of relative ability of the peer, his familiarity to the subject, and whatever other peer characteristics might be associated with socioeconomic status.'' (Author)
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Low Income Groups, Peer Relationship, Performance Factors
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Lowder, Jerry E. – Journal of Research in Music Education, 1973
Purpose of this study was to provide an analysis of errors performed on a sight-reading test administered to four college freshman piano classes at the end of their first semester of instruction. (Author)
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, College Freshmen, Error Patterns, Evaluation
Schultz, Roger F.; Dodd, David H. – Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1972
Experiments reported here confirm the finding that performance can actually improve as intradimensional variability increases. (Authors/MB)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Data Analysis, Discrimination Learning, Performance Factors
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Elliott, Rogers – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1972
Implication of findings for classical maturation theories of the development of reaction speed are discussed. (Author/MB)
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Males, Motivation, Performance Factors
Rowe, Edward J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1972
Results showed that imagery and frequency factors have independent and additive effects in verbal discrimination learning. (Author)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Discrimination Learning, Imagery, Learning Processes
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Mazer, Gilbert E. – Psychology in the Schools, 1971
The results of this study indicate that teachers do connote a definite pattern of behaviors and attributes that distinguish lower status and middle class students. (Author)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Disadvantaged Youth, Performance Factors, Social Change
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Fish, Barry; Karabenick, Stuart Alan – Psychological Reports, 1971
Descriptors: Attitudes, Behavior Patterns, Individual Power, Motivation
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Vogel-Sprott, M. – Psychological Reports, 1971
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Learning Processes, Performance Factors
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Dale, R. R.; Miller, P. M. – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 1972
Study indicates that students from city schools make the best progress in their first year at university; those from schools in large towns of about 16,000 to 60,000 do worst; while those from schools in smaller towns and villages fall between the two. (Authors)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Background, College Freshmen, Comparative Analysis
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Deutsch, Francine; Stein, Aletha H. – Human Development, 1972
The present study was an attempt to investigate two motivational interpretations of earlier findings that private speech increases with task difficulty. (Authors)
Descriptors: Child Language, Child Responsibility, Difficulty Level, Performance Factors
Weist, Richard M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1972
Results of three experiments affirm prior research concerned with the distinction between associative and encoding factors in free recall. (Author/MB)
Descriptors: Association Measures, Associative Learning, Classification, Cluster Grouping
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