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Peer reviewedTennyson, Robert D. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1973
Results indicated that negative instances were an integral part of concept acquisiton. The relationship between the positive and negative instances was based upon similarity of irrelevant attributes and sentence difficulty. (Author)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Difficulty Level, Grade 7, Relevance (Information Retrieval)
Peer reviewedStang, David – Journal of Psychology, 1977
Proposes explanations and further research considerations for the apparent psychological equivalence of the terms "complexity" and "novelty" as they refer to information theory, stimulus generalization, and subject expectancy effects. (RL)
Descriptors: Arousal Patterns, Attention, Concept Formation, Difficulty Level
Download full textMeyer, William J.; Hultsch, David – 1967
The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of age differences and differences in memory load on concept identification (CI) tasks of varying levels of complexity. Previous studies with young children found increasingly better performance on CI tasks with increasing age. This was in part due to the fact that older subjects categorize…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation
