The mediating role of learning in the relationship between repeated exposure and affect was explored and supported in three experiments involving a total of 229 undergraduate participants. It was found that both learning and affect measures behaved in essentially the same way as a function of exposure duration (experiments I and III), serial…

When one learns complex material, the important thing appears to be the ability to understand the material. Once understanding occurs, learning and remembering follow automatically. The conventional psychological literature says little about the processes involved in the learning of complex material--material that takes weeks, months, and even…

Two experiments investigated the impact of immediate knowledge of a correct response (KCR) upon learning in programed instruction. The 356 subjects completed a programed lesson on myocardial infarction taught by means of the PLATO IV computer assisted instructional system. Subjects who received KCR after responding learned significantly more than…

Children of ages 5 and 8 years were given one of three learning tasks: (a) a component selection problem, in which two stimulus components were redundant and (b) two incidental learning tasks, in which one component of the stimuli was task-relevant and the other was incidental. A posttest, measuring the children's recall for information about each…

A pilot study and two formal studies were conducted with educable mentally handicapped (EMR) children to develop materials and procedures suitable for studying schema learning in EMRs and to demonstrate schema learning in EMRs in the absence of external guidance. The pilot and formal study I were conducted to develop suitable populations of…

This paper briefly explains the model used by the Eastern Regional Institute for Education in the selection and augmentation of process-promoting curricula. A schematic representation of the model provides a general view of the procedures involved and their sequence within the model. The model is then analyzed by examining each particular stage…

Designed for resource teachers of gifted children, the resource guide explains the inquiry educational method and presents seven lesson plan designs. The inquiry learning process is said to encourage use of any communication style that relates to the individual and develops the following learning and thought processes: identification of study…

Current thinking of specialists in the study of language learning provides the basis of this book. The 12 chapters of the book and their authors are as follows: 1. Introduction--Charles A. Ferguson; 2. The Acquisition of Language in Infant and Child--Martin D. S. Braine; 3. Development of Native Language Skills beyond the Early Years--John B.…

This report presents an evaluation of a project undertaken by the Atlanta, Georgia Public Schools which provided tenth-, eleventh-, and twelfth-grade students with an alternative to the traditional classroom process of learning. By using a multidisciplinary approach to environmental studies, the students were to study independently, conduct…

Social learning, in particular, modeling and imitation learning, is discussed in the five sections of this paper. Section One deals with the characteristics of the model (human versus cartoon, television, film, etc.) and characteristics of the situation (reward versus punishment, etc.). Section Two, which is relatively extensive, covers aspects of…

Various models of educational evaluation are presented. These include: (1) the classical type model, which contains the following guidelines: formulate objectives, classify objectives, define objectives in behavioral terms, suggest situations in which achievement of objectives will be shown, develop or select appraisal techniques, and gather and…

Simulation seems to give at least a partial methodological answer to the pragmatic concept of learning by experience (and to the rising cry for social relevance in school curricula). Expecting, in the years ahead, increasing practices of various simulation techniques in classroom situations, there is need to re-examine some basic assumptions of…

Two experiments were conducted to compare the effects of two different experimentally induced orientations toward lesson objectives on teachers' instructional behaviors and the consequent achievement of their pupils. In each experiment, 36 student teachers were randomly assigned to one of two treatments. Each treatment required the teachers to…

In the belief that trained personnel are vital to the development of quality care programs for children, this handbook provides training suggestions for personnel in various day care settings. Basic principles in day care training include: (1) All persons in a day care setting, from policy-makers, to staff, to children are learners; (2) Training…

The need for research on speech processes and cognitive learning in young children, as well as the background for such a project within the Wisconsin Research and Development Center for Cognitive Learning, is presented. The first chapter deals with the nature and rationale of the research project, the relation of this project to other research…