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Rohrer, Doug – Online Submission, 2012
When students encounter a set of concepts (or terms or principles) that are similar in some way, they often confuse one with another. For instance, they might mistake one word for another word with a similar spelling (e.g., allusion instead of illusion) or choose the wrong strategy for a mathematics problem because it resembles a different kind of…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Learning Strategies, Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction
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Tourinho, E. Z. – Behavior Analyst, 2006
In this article, I discuss the concepts of "private stimuli," "covert responses," and "private events," emphasizing three aspects: the conditions under which private stimuli may acquire discriminative functions to verbal responses, the conditions of unobservability of covert responses, and the complexity of events or phenomena described as…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Epistemology, Responses, Problem Solving