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Husak, William S.; And Others – 1980
The purpose of this study was to determine the influence that varying types of labels have on the organization of a series of movements in memory. Subjects were presented with a series of movements on a positioning task. They were provided with numeric labels for each movement held in the series. Results indicated that labels play an important…
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Cognitive Processes, Mnemonics, Patterned Responses
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Miller, Jeff – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 1982
A technique is introduced to study the flow of information through processing stages in choice reaction time tasks. It was designed to determine whether response preparation can begin before stimulus identification is complete ("continuous" models) or if a stimulus must be fully identified prior to any response activation…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Generalization, Higher Education, Patterned Responses
Johnson, Candine E. – 1979
All learning takes place through the unification of body and mind. Within the realm of motor skill learning, the term mental practice has been used to explain this phenomenon. It has been found that individuals can use their imaginations to learn and to improve upon their performance. Mental practice can be used by teachers who have too little…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Drills (Practice), Elementary Secondary Education, Group Instruction