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Jacobson, Leonard I.; and others – J Educ Psychol, 1969
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Concept Formation, Educational Psychology
Download full textCotton, Jown W. – 1974
This investigation compares overt judgments about tenable hypotheses to choices in a concept identification task, as a function of stimulus similarity on successive trials. Two mathematical models are tested: (a) A 1-element local consistency version of Restle's concept identification model and (b) the same model with two additional passive states…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Concept Formation, Critical Thinking
Dickerson, Donald J. – 1968
Six experiments examined the problem-solving behavior of normal and mentally retarded (MR) children with a two-choice discrimination learning situation: the effects of stimulus similarity upon types of solutions utilized by MR children; the role of redundant cues in the discrimination learning of MR subjects with differing mental ages; the…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Children, Cognitive Processes, College Students
