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Making Letters Distinctive.
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Lockhead, G. R.; Crist, W. B. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1980
Small graphic changes made in normal letters of the alphabet changed the similarity relations among those letters. Children and adults classified letters of this distinctive font faster and with fewer errors than they did normal letters. Relations between letters in the stimulus set determined how difficult any particular letter was to classify.…
Descriptors: Contrast, Difficulty Level, Higher Education, Letters (Alphabet)
Effect of Distinctive Feature Training on Paired-Associate Learning
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Samuels, S. Jay – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1973
Purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that training the student to note the distinctive features of a stimulus during perceptual learning facilities the hook-up phase in a paired-associate task. (Author)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Distinctive Features (Language), Kindergarten Children, Letters (Alphabet)