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Peer reviewedKolers, Paul A.; Perkins, David N. – Cognitive Psychology, 1975
The theory is developed and contrasted with other theories of pattern recognition in which concepts such as stimulus generalization, tuned detectors, and preprocessing play major roles. A relation of this theory to problems encountered among disabled readers ("dyslexics") is also brought out. (Author/BJG)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Discrimination Learning, Dyslexia, Higher Education
Download full textLevin, Joel R.; Ghatala, Elizabeth S. – 1976
When 112 fifth- and sixth-graders were observed for their use of one of two possible rehearsal strategies in verbal discrimination learning tasks, the strategy in which the children generated a functional explanation of the word showed a positive influence on simple frequency discriminations. Data analyses also indicate that under this strategy…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Discrimination Learning, Grade 5, Grade 6
