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Levin, Joel R.; Ghatala, Elizabeth S. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 1976
In a recently reported study, the functional components of imagery and vocalization strategies in children's verbal discrimination learning were examined, following the combined experimental/correlational logic of Underwood. The present research extends those results to a strategy that (unlike imagery and vocalization) has a positive influence on…
Descriptors: Children, Discrimination Learning, Experimental Psychology, Hypothesis Testing
Peer reviewedRincover, Arnold – Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 1978
Two research experiments were conducted to investigate the characteristic of overselective attention of autistic children, which has proven detrimental to learning when prompt fading techniques are used. It was found that autistics often respond exclusively to the prompt (the extra guiding stimulus), and fail to learn about the training stimuli.…
Descriptors: Autism, Children, Discrimination Learning, Handicapped Children
