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Peer reviewedCantor, Joan H.; Spiker, Charles C. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1982
Strategies of kindergarten children in discrimination learning were studied in a factorial design with temporal placements of two introtact probes and two types of pretraining. Results support the expectation that the posttrial probe would improve the short-term efficiency of children in both pretraining conditions. (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Discrimination Learning, Hypothesis Testing, Kindergarten Children
Peer reviewedCantor, Joan H.; Spiker, Charles C. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1978
A specially designed discrimination learning task was used to investigate whether the performance of kindergarten and first grade children could be improved through explicit training with a simple hypothesis-testing strategy. (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Elementary School Students, Hypothesis Testing, Problem Solving
Peer reviewedCantor, Joan H.; Spiker, Charles C. – Child Development, 1979
Subjects were trained against their initial dimensional preference in a two-dimensional simultaneous discrimination learning task. (RH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Dimensional Preference, Discrimination Learning, Elementary School Students
