A simplified classroom exercise, the ring-toss exercise, was successful for the authors in communicating thoughts about setting realistic objectives and improving performance. (DS)

Frequency theory of verbal discrimination learning holds that the correct and incorrect alternatives of each word pair acquire differential frequencies. (Author/MB)

Results indicated that a person's self-concept (personality), as measured by the Interpersonal Checklist, was only marginally related to both choice of study plan and performance. (Author)

Prediction that organics will report fewer after-effects than both normals and schizophrenics was confirmed. (Authors)

Examines the hypothesis that lower-class black children are more external" in their personal orientation than middle-class white children. (Authors/MB)

Results of this study suggest that availability of a consistent set of color labels is related more closely to recognition accuracy than is the spontaneous production of labels in a color recognition task. (Authors)

Study attempts to clarify the attentional versus perceptual learning functions of presence of the discriminative stimuli during delay. (Authors)

Reinstatement is the increased retention of previously learned behavior. (MB)

The data of the present study supplement those given by Vane and also provide a context in which to assess the differential abilities of Negro and Puerto Rican Head Start Children on verbal and performance tasks. (Author)

Numerous attempts have been made to rectify the kind of irrational factors which help prevent a young person from meeting one of society's first demands, that of satisfactory school performance. This paper discusses some of the existing literature on the subject, especially a rather effective technique suggested by Ellis. (Author)

Results were interpreted as support for the hypothesis that making associations to verbal units facilitates recall and that reaction time is an index of the facility with which associations can be made. (Authors)

Results indicate that the RCR (rehearsal-of-the-correct-alternative response) plays an important role such that when the RCR is inhibited, performance is reduced. (Authors/CB)

Primary purpose of the experiment was to assess the effect of motivation, as manipulated by videotaping the experimental session, upon concept attainment. (Authors)