Six groups of nursery schoolers, kindergarteners, and first graders balanced for sex were trained and tested on a series of discrimination learning and transposition problems. (Author)

The research described in this paper is concerned with conceptual learning in disadvantaged children. The various studies discussed were concerned with the current learning capacity of the subjects. The tasks presented consisted of inductive concept problems. Subjects were provided with various experiences and the effects of these procedures on…

This study analyzes the generalization abilities of children with reading disabilities by comparing the performance of such children with that of a normal control group on a conditional discrimination learning-set task. Both groups, consisting of boys aged eight to ten, participated in the Wisconsin General Test Apparatus in a form modified for…