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Hicks, Robert E.; Young, Robert K. – Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1973
The present study attempted to increase the number of responses investigated in the study of retroactive inhibition. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Diagrams, Experimental Psychology, Inhibition
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Lavach, John F. – Journal of Educational Research, 1973
This study examined the relationship between arousal and short- versus long-term memory of auditorally presented continuous information as would be experienced in a typical classroom lecture environment. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Arousal Patterns, Data Analysis, Diagrams, Educational Research
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Harrison, Alton, Jr. – Educational Forum, 1974
Article discussed an instructors' educational reforms and his attempts to develop student individuality. (RK)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Experiments, Humanism, Learning Processes
Hunter, Madeline – Instructor, 1974
Article considered the advantages and the disadvantages of using parents as volunteers in the classroom. (RK)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Objectives, Inservice Education, Learning Processes
Charbonneau, Manon P. – Independent School Bulletin, 1973
If teachers would only step back and watch and listen to children as they learn, even as they play games and work together making things, they could begin to see a pattern of thought emerging that is unique for each child. (Author)
Descriptors: Discovery Learning, Elementary School Teachers, Learning Experience, Learning Processes
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Hunt, Peter J.; Hillery, Joseph M. – Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 1973
The present study is concerned with coaction effects on dominant responses in a stylus maze where dominant responses are defined as responses whose probability of occurrence exceeds .50. (Author)
Descriptors: Anxiety, College Students, Data Analysis, Learning Processes
Maisto, Albert A.; Ward, L. Charles – Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1973
The purpose of the present study was to provide further evidence with respect to the effects of presentation method in serial learning. (Author)
Descriptors: College Students, Learning Processes, Psychological Studies, Recall (Psychology)
Turrisi, Frank D. – Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1973
The present experiment examined the choice behavior of humans during the learning of a reversal (R) shift as an empirical test of attentional explanations of the overtraining reversal effect. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Attention, Behavioral Science Research, Discrimination Learning, Learning Processes
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Charness, Neil; Bregman, Albert S. – Canadian Journal of Psychology, 1973
In a study which required college students to learn to recognize four flexible plastic shapes photographed on different backgrounds from different angles, the importance of a context-rich environment for the learning and recognition of visual patterns was illustrated. (Author)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Concept Formation, Educational Research, Learning Processes
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Heitzmann, Wm. Ray – Education, 1973
Considered the value of educational simulations in instructional areas and situations. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Educational Games, Educational Research, Instructional Materials, Learning Processes
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Prosser, G. V. – Instructional Science, 1974
A look at an experiment using prose in which questions are categorized as 1) active; or 2) passive. (HB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Learning, Learning Processes, Methods Research
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Denney, Nancy Wadsworth; Acito, Marlene A. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1974
Preschool children who did not group a set of geometric stimuli according to complete similarity on a pretest were taught classification wither in a modeling or in a reinforcement condition. Modeling was found to be an effective means of teaching classification behavior. (ST)
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Learning Processes
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Clawson, Elmer U.; Barnes, Buckley R. – Journal of Experimental Education, 1973
The question to be answered in the study was: Are there significant differences in learning when students are presented organizers before the learning passages (pre-organizers), after the learning passages (post-organizers), or when they are presented only the learning passages (no-organizers)? (Author)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Anthropology, Educational Experiments, Elementary Education
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Cunningham, Michael A.; Gary, Harry J. – International Journal Of Man-Machine Studies, 1974
A presentation of arguments demonstrating piaget's sensorimotor stages in Hebb's terms, and the suggestion for performing a computer test. This paper is an early progress report of an attempt to translate some plausible arguments into a rigorous demonstration. (Author)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes, Learning Processes
Chaudhari, U. S. – Educational Technology, 1974
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Critical Thinking, Inquiry, Learning Processes
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