The purpose of this study was to determine effects of various prompting procedures in teaching children a sight vocabulary. The five words which comprised the sight vocabulary were presented to 96 five-year-olds in nursery and elementary schools. During initial training, integrated stimuli and non-integrated stimuli differed with respect to the…

The purpose was to investigate the influence of variations in conservation form and perceptual modality on the expressed level of understanding of the conservation of weight concept, and to determine if these variations result in significantly different observed rates of concept development. Sampling included 225 children, five to twelve years…

The purpose was to develop and implement a strategy for organizing a curriculum into a system having explicit structural mediators of positive transfer from lower- to higher-order objectives. This was cast as a mathematical system, and three axioms were specified so that the system was characterized by composition and reversibility. A set of…

Can the laws of learning be applied in the classroom? The issue is whether control over the stimulus affords management-control over the learning processes within the student. The S-R (stimulus-response) position in psychology, most notably associated with Skinner, tends to accept and assert the affirmative. However, accumulated experience with…

A theory that there is a correspondence between Piagetian conservation operations and groups of symmetry transformations, and that these symmetry transformations may be used in explaining human problem solving behaviors, is developed in this paper. Current research in artificial intelligence is briefly reviewed, then details of the symmetry…

The purpose of the study was to gain information regarding the interaction between ten mental factors selected from Guilford's Structure of the Intellect Model and learning, transfer, and retention of a mathematical concept studied with and without a physical model. The meaning of place value in different number bases was studied by 202 seventh…

A presentation of the 40-year history of psychometrics is given with comments about needed trends for the future. Computers have radically changed the time required for data processing. In testing, many promising developments, such as Kristof's reliability for vector variables, latent class and latent struction models, one-factor ration scale in…

This study investigated subjects' ability to combine and organize information from different sentences, as well as their ability to retain that information. Ninety-six college undergraduates were given three trials to learn the characteristics of ships from a text. Attributes of each ship were clustered together (name organization), or sentences…

Research and development strategies designed and implemented at the Wisconsin Research and Development Center for Cognitive Learning and the Southwest Regional Laboratory are discussed in papers by the directors of each and by members of the R & D Center staff. These papers further give examples of the research and development activities underway…

An informal introduction to the study of communication deals with the major topics in the field. It presents basic theories of communication and language, reviews how language takes on meaning, explains the stimulus-response and Piaget theories of learning, and presents major theories dealing with communications and society. These theories include…

A random sample of 145 planetarium directors in the United States and Canada responded to a questionnaire concerned with their adult education activities. Data on teaching techniques used with adult groups, the types of programs offered, evaluation techniques used to assess the programs and the progress of the adult learners were gathered and…

Recent theoretical developments have suggested that understanding the thoughts contained in prose material and storing the information contained in prose material are the same thing. A test which was purported to measure the information stored during the reading of prose passages was found to correlate .98 with subjective estimates of the percent…

THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY ON TRANSFER OF LEARNING STUDIES WAS COMPLETED FOR U.S. OFFICE OF EDUCATION CONTRACT NO. 4-20-002 AS APPENDIX "A" (SECTION TWO) TO THE FINAL REPORT. IT CONTAINS 1,775 TITLES FROM THE PERIOD 1890 TO 1966 ON TRANSFER OF LEARNING. THE CONCERN WAS TO COMPILE THE EMPIRICALLY BASED PRINCIPLES RELATING TO TRANSFER OF TRAINING…

THIS STUDY FOCUSED ON THE GENERAL PROBLEM OF HOW THE TOTAL EFFECT OF A MULTIDIMENSIONAL STIMULUS IS COMPOUNDED FROM THE SIMPLE EFFECT OF ITS SEPARATE COMPONENTS IN THE CONTEXT OF STIMULUS GENERALIZATION. FROM A THEORETICAL LEVEL, THE PROBLEM WAS STUDIED IN TERMS OF THE GEOMETRY OF MINKOWSKI. AN EXPERIMENT WAS CARRIED OUT WITH 20 SUBJECTS WHO WERE…

AN EXTENSION OF MODELING BEHAVIOR INTO COGNITIVE AREAS OF DEVELOPMENT WAS ATTEMPTED THROUGH THE USE OF FILM-MEDIATED MODELS FOR THE ACTIVATION AND GENERALIZATION PHASES OF THE CONSERVATION PROBLEM. FOUR HYPOTHESES WERE SET UP IN AN ATTEMPT TO QUESTION SUCH PREVIOUS EXPLANATIONS OF THE CONSERVATION RESPONSE AS THOSE OF PIAGET AND BRUNER. THE…