Examines the effects of integration complexity on the ability of child and adult listeners to integrate information. Increases in complexity adversely affected children's more than adults' resolution integration. The children's integration performance was affected by theme discontinuity and conferential complexity. (Author/AS)

The evidence from studies of component selection in paired-associate learning is reviewed and then considered in relation to Martin's (1968) hypothesis of encoding variability and Rudy's (1974) model of variations in the associative process. Component-selection tasks are also compared to verbal concept-formation tasks. (Editor)

Examines the effects of instructions that an adult experimenter gives, his presence in experimental setting, and child's history with adults on the reinforcement control of children's behavior. (JH)

Three experiments were conducted to examine the relations between retrieval and encoding in a levels-of-processing framework. (Author/RM)

This is a qualitative study of 22 9th graders performing generalizations on a task involving linear patterns. Our research questions were: What enables/hinders students' abilities to generalize a linear pattern? What strategies do successful students use to develop an explicit generalization? How do students make use of visual and numerical cues…

Based on psychological approaches that evoke mental representations through verbal and visual cues, this paper investigates the different kinds of mental representations projected by 8 to 11 year old children of identified arithmetical achievement when responding to verbal and visual stimuli associated with fractions. It examines how the visual…

The main purpose of this study was to look at how we used specific writing assignments in our courses to encourage metacognitive reflection in order to increase the learning that takes place. The study also aimed to aid in the development of higher order processing skills through the development of student reflection. The students involved in the…

The purpose of this research was to determine the specific behaviors and cues which 104 assessors perceived as indicating the presence of psychological variables shown to be related to competent job behavior. Implications of the lack of correlation of cue utilization with assessor characteristics are discussed. (Author)

The effects of perceptual pretraining on preferences and concept identification performance in five- and eight-year-old Ss were investigated.

The present experiment was designed to give attention to a potentially important parameter, that of paired-associate task modality. (Author/RK)

Groups trained to compare the whole and subset improved in cue identification from negative instances; performance in the stimulus exposure group declined. (Authors)

Results indicate that when subjects are given explicit instructions as to the interlist relationship and when the transfer list is presented at a relatively slow rate, both positive and negative transfer effects may be obtained in the serial/paired-associate paradigm. (Author)

Alternative analysis to study reported in PS 502 061. Rejoinder presented in PS 502 063. (MB)

Second, fourth, and sixth graders were trained under conditions of Constrained and Cued recall on a list of randomly ordered nouns comprising 4 categories of things. (Authors)