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Verbal Analogies and Concrete Operations
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Sheppard, John L. – Australian Journal of Education, 1975
The present paper reports a series of studies to investigate the role of word associations and to see if concrete operational children could solve verbal analogies by logical analysis. (Author)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes, Educational Testing, Flow Charts
Verbal Mediation in Young Aggressive Boys
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Camp, Bonnie W. – Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 1977
Aggressive and normal boys from 77 to 97 months of age were compared on measures of verbal ability, types of self-guiding speech, nonverbal intelligence, reading achievement, impulsivity, ability to inhibit responses, and response modulation following overt and covery commands. It is hypothesized that both learning and behavior problems in…
Descriptors: Aggression, Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes, Males
Associative Facilitation Without Expectancy in a Lexical Decision Task
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Fischler, Ira – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 1977
Subjects were asked to decide if a pair of visually presented letter strings were both words (lexical decision task). Results supported an automatic spread of excitation model of associative facilitation. (Editor/RK)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes, Experimental Psychology, Experiments
Some Aspects of the Correspondence between Content Structure and Cognitive Structure in Physics Instruction
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Shavelson, R. J. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1972
Purpose of this study was to examine the correspondence between digraph analysis of content structure and word associations. (Author)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, High School Students
Toward an Explantation of the Syntagmatic-Paradigmatic Shift
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Francis, Hazel – Child Development, 1972
Research was designed to explore the basis of children's associations in matching and directed association tasks. (Author)
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes, Elementary School Students
Word-Association Responses of Children as a Function of Age, Sex and Instructions
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Kahana, Boaz; Sterneck, Rosalie – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1972
Study examined word associations from the perspective of cognitive level and thought processes. (Authors/MB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Associative Learning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes