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Peer reviewedBramwell, R. D. – British Journal of Educational Studies, 1972
Purpose of the essay is to trace some of the educational implications of Hayakawa's statement, The individual object or event we are naming...has no name and belongs to no class until we put it into one." (Author/MB)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Descriptive Linguistics, Discrimination Learning, Educational Theories
Download full textBozinou, Efthymia; Goulet, L. R. – 1970
This study investigated the spontaneous use of verbal mediators in discrimination learning, the transfer of mediators to a free recall task, and the effects of a pretraining task on performance. The discrimination tasks required nursery school children (80) to: (1) sort three instances each of two different concepts in a conceptually consistent…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Discrimination Learning, Learning Processes, Mediation Theory
