This study focused on the cognitive abstractness or concreteness of a subject, the level of cognitive complexity reflecting the ways in which a person receives, stores, and transmits information. (Author/RK)

Research conducted under Grant GS-296 from the National Science Foundation.

The hypotheses that there will be a significant difference (1) in the number of responses generated according to economic issues, (2) in the number of responses generated according to social issues, (3) in the number of responses generated between the category of economic issues and the category of social issues, (4) in cue ranking by response…

Giving names for pictures of familiar objects to nursery school children improves their later recognition of those pictures. This improvement occurs even though the children can easily name the pictures when asked. The present research eliminated the sufficiency of several possible explanations. The names might have provided a response to rehearse…

Three procedures of the free-sort methodology which are usually standardized were varied in an attempt to discover the effects of such variation upon the number and nature of manifest categorizations. The conditions investigated were effectiveness of the sorting cue, the effects of the order of stimulus presentation and the effect of re-sorting.…

To investigate the effect of several cueing methods on paired-associate learning, 48 adult subjects were asked to learn pairs of city names and corresponding airport codes using special cueing procedures or standard anticipation procedures. Visibility of the response term, and hence cue strength, was varied tachistoscopically, adjusting the…

Two experiments were performed to evaluate multitracking (branching) in a linear program. In experiment one, the multitracking consisted of providing additional cues at each frame for use by those students who felt unsure of their response. Results indicated no significant difference in efficiency between the regular linear program and the…

Closely examined the effects of word length cues on cloze scores. (HOD)

Suggests ways students' nonverbal cues may be used in teaching. (DD)

A system for library orientation used at the University of North Dakota included cue cards suspended from the ceiling in five areas--reference, study room and computers, periodicals, government documents and microforms, and special collections--at which a tour group would listen to a brief talk. Student and staff response was favorable. (1…

Results from three experiments suggest that attention to context may benefit target recall in situations in which the context can be meaningfully related to the target. Adults seem to be more able to engage in context-interactive processing of stimulus information than are children, who base target selection on perceptual information. (PCB)

When 96 mothers and 46 fathers of 6- or 13-month-old infants independently generated behavioral cues they believed contributed to their perception of their infant's recent easiness/difficultness, few systematic differences were found between easy and difficult infants, 6- and 13-month-olds, males and females, and firstborn and later-born.…

Five profoundly deaf adults were recorded reading lists of individual words under three expressive modes (speech alone, speech and signs, and speech with cues). Results indicated that speech with cues produced the highest level of intelligibility, speech and signs the lowest. (Author/CL)

A four-step sequential prompt instruction strategy for mildly handicapped students is outlined and suggestions are made for managing prompts during instruction and monitoring their use. (CL)

The role of the spatial relationship between target responses and reinforcers in the discrimination learning of six mentally retarded adults was evaluated. Results showed that discrimination performance was more efficient in the experimental condition (reinforcement located near the correct cue) than the control condition (reinforcement in common…