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Peer reviewedGholson, Barry; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1972
In the course of two experiments, groups of kindergarten, second, fourth, sixth grade and college students received several discrimination problems to investigate hypothesis testing behavior. (Authors/MB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, College Students, Developmental Psychology
Peer reviewedOffenbach, Stuart I. – Developmental Psychology, 1974
This study tested Levine's hypothesis testing model of discrimination learning with a procedure for determining which hypothesis is sampled without introducing blank trials. (DP)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Behavioral Science Research, College Students
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
Peer reviewedKemler, Deborah G. – Developmental Psychology, 1978
Three studies of elementary school children's problem-solving procedures in intentional discrimination tasks are reported. Subjects were children selected from kindergarten and grades 2, 3, and 6. (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Discrimination Learning, Elementary Education
Richman, Shanna – 1976
This study was designed to investigate the effects of modeling or training with and without rule provision on the employment of strategies in solving four-dimensional, discrimination-learning problems. Subjects were 144 second and sixth-grade children from the New York City Public Schools. The blank-trial hypothesis testing paradigm was used. The…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Discrimination Learning, Educational Research
