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Langer, Judith A. – 1981
Research into the reading process has shaped an understanding of how readers "make meaning" when they are engaged in a reading activity. This research has highlighted a learning triad--the reader, the text, and the context (or learning environment)--that interactively affects the manner in which the student will comprehend a particular…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Comprehension

Wickelgren, Wayne A. – Psychological Review, 1979
Horizontal vs vertical associative memory is defined. Vertical associative memory involves chunking--specifying new nodes representing combinations of old nodes. Chunking is the basis of semantic memory and cognitive learning. The hippocampal (limbic) arousal system is critical to the chunking process; its disruption produces the amnesic syndrome.…
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes, Conditioning

Wickelgren, Wayne A. – Psychological Review, 1979
The relationship between current information processing and prior associative theories of human and animal learning, memory, and amnesia are discussed. The paper focuses on the two components of the amnesic syndrome, retrograde amnesia and anterograde amnesia. A neural theory of chunking and consolidation is proposed. (Author/RD)
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Association (Psychology), Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes
Halford, Graeme S. – 1996
Explicit representation of relations plays some role in virtually all higher cognitive processes, but relational knowledge has seldom been investigated systematically. This paper considers how relational knowledge is involved in some tasks that have been important to cognitive development, including transitivity, the balance scale, classification…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Children, Classification, Cognitive Processes
Peterson, Rosemary – 1979
A rationale for teaching beginning reading from a learning theory perspective that is compatible with Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development is presented in this paper. The model offered is based on a linguistic analysis and on current research. The logical thinking skills characteristic of each stage of development proposed by Piagetian…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Beginning Reading, Bilingual Education, Cognitive Processes

Robinson, Peter – Language Learning, 1995
Reviews research on the nature of attention and memory and proposes a model of the relationship between them during second-language acquisition complementary to Schmidt's noticing hypothesis and oppositional to Krashen's dual-system hypothesis. The article maintains that differential performance on implicit and explicit learning and memory…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Attention Control, Cognitive Processes, College Students
Donald, Janet Gail – 1980
The contributions of psychology, theoretically and experimentally, to university teaching are examined from the perspective of educational epistemology. The most basic theoretical contribution that psychology has made to cognitive learning has been the delineation of a unit of thinking, the concept, which acts as an organizer of experience. The…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes, College Instruction
Shute, Valerie J. – 1992
This paper summarizes our present knowledge and understanding of the processes and outcomes of learning. The basic idea about learning is that the outcomes of learning (e.g., propositional knowledge, procedural skills, and mental models) reflect differences in learning processes (e.g., encoding skills, attention allocation, and hypothesis…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Attention, Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction