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Download full textMedin, Douglas L. – 1972
Seven main experiments and three pilot studies were conducted to develop and test theories of transfer of training in children. Initial tests failed to support an incentive model for learning and transfer, but a new model given strong emphasis to the role of context in learning was developed which accounted for a wide range of learning and…
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Cognitive Processes, Discrimination Learning
Medin, Douglas L.; Smith, Edward E. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 1981
How strategies affect learning of categories that lack necessary and sufficient attributes is explored. The authors propose that strategy variations induced by instructions affect only the amount of information represented about attributes, not processes operating on representations. An experiment required subjects to classify schematic faces into…
Descriptors: Adults, Classification, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation
