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Don, Hilary J.; Goldwater, Micah B.; Greenaway, Justine K.; Hutchings, Rosalind; Livesey, Evan J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2020
Failure to learn and generalize abstract relational rules has critical implications for education. In this study, we aimed to determine which training conditions facilitate relational transfer in a relatively simple (patterning) discrimination versus a relatively complex (biconditional) discrimination. The amount of training participants received…
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Transfer of Training, Cognitive Processes, Reflection
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Reynolds, Gemma; Reed, Phil – Learning and Motivation, 2011
Stimulus over-selectivity refers to behavior being controlled by one element of the environment at the expense of other equally salient aspects of the environment. This is a common problem for many individuals, including those with autism spectrum disorders, and learning difficulties, and presents a considerable problem for information processing…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Cues, Autism, Discrimination Learning
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Salters-Pedneault, Kristalyn; Suvak, Michael; Roemer, Lizabeth – Behavior Therapy, 2008
The current study examined the impact of both the tendency to worry (trait worry) and the process of worry (state worry) on subsequent behavioral responding in a schedule discrimination learning task. High and low trait worriers were randomly assigned to a state worry or relaxation incubation condition and completed a test of executive functioning…
Descriptors: Cues, Student Attitudes, Discrimination Learning, Tests
Hall, James W. – 1977
This study examined children's use of category information as a discrimination cue to avoid intrusions in recall and false alarms in recognition of items outside given categories. Forty-eight children in grades 1 and 4 were administered one of three conditions of a recognition task in which all study words were members of one of two familiar…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Processes, Cues, Discrimination Learning
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Jones, James Marc – Psychological Reports, 1971
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Cues
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Fergenson, P. Everett; Teichner, Warren H. – Journal of General Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Cues, Discrimination Learning
Gladstone, Roy – J Exp Child Psychol, 1969
Descriptors: Age Differences, Association (Psychology), Child Development, Children
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Knight, Carol A.; Scholnick, Ellin Kofsky – Child Development, 1973
Groups trained to compare the whole and subset improved in cue identification from negative instances; performance in the stimulus exposure group declined. (Authors)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Cues, Data Analysis
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Kral, Paul A. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes, Cues, Discrimination Learning
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Tayal, O. P. – Journal of General Psychology, 1972
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cues, Discrimination Learning, Eye Movements
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Clouse, Bonnidell – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cues, Discrimination Learning