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Ackerman, Brian P. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1986
Describes four experiments that examined the ability of second- and fifth-grade children and college adults to use "extra-list" cues to retrieve episodic information from memory. Shows that effective cue use varied with both the "match" of cue and event classification, and with the associative structure of permanent memory.…
Descriptors: Adults, Associative Learning, Classification, Cognitive Development
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Bullock, Merry; Russell, James A. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1984
A structural model of emotions was used to reveal patterns in how children interpret the emotional facial expressions of others. Tests with young children and adults indicate that children organize the emotional domain in a systematic fashion, initially according to pleasure and arousal and later in terms of adult-like categories. (Author/AS)
Descriptors: Adults, Affective Behavior, Associative Learning, Classification
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Martin, Beverly A. – Journal of Research in Music Education, 1991
Investigates the contributions of tonal syllables, hand signs, and letter representations of tonal syllables to the development of verbal and symbolic tonal skills of first grade students. Finds no method to be significantly better than another. Concludes that tonal aptitude is the most significant predictor of tonal syllable and pitch…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Auditory Perception, Concept Formation, Elementary School Students
Rychlak, Joseph F. – 1984
Although traditional learning theories are based on a demonstrative view of cognition, human beings tend to reason both demonstratively and dialectically. To examine the dialectical theory five studies were conducted. In the first study subjects rated words that could be used as personality descriptors for likability and subsequently learned them…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Concept Formation