Advocates of modality preference posit that individuals have a dominant sense and that when new material is presented in this preferred modality, learning is enhanced. Despite the widespread belief in this position, there is little supporting evidence. In the present study, the authors implemented a Morse code-like recall task to examine whether…

A learning-to-learn approach was taken in the present study in an attempt to draw the subjects' attention to the associative relations among items and to examine whether the presentation of four functionally equivalent interitem lists would result in the subjects' using a higher cognitive strategy. (Author/RK)

Investigation is concerned with the nature of the memory representation that serves as a basis for frequency judgments. (Author)

In general, the study confirmed the prediction that learning of a discrimination under punishment or a reward-punishment condition is superior to that under reward alone. (Authors)

In a recently reported study, the functional components of imagery and vocalization strategies in children's verbal discrimination learning were examined, following the combined experimental/correlational logic of Underwood. The present research extends those results to a strategy that (unlike imagery and vocalization) has a positive influence on…

Subjects' rehearsal strategies in learning a 32-pair mixed list of high- and low-imagery pairs of nouns during the four study trials in an alternating study/test presentation were measured. (Editor)

One of the concerns of the present study was to determine the effects of Right and Wrong items under conditions that do not reduce the opportunity to rehearse the Right items in practice. (Author/RK)

The orderly increase in the proportion of subjects who make optional reversal shifts over an age scale that now encompasses a range from 3 to 18 is confirmed. (Authors)

Results offer strong support to the notion that ontogenetic changes occur in the tendency for humans to prefer an Intradimensional over an Extradimensional choice in an optional discrimination shift paradigm. (Authors)

The results of three experiments involving 6 young children suggest that the generalized imitation effect may not be entirely due to the child's inability to discriminate reinforced fron nonreinforced occasions. Instructional and social variables may strongly influence the generalized imitation effect. (WY)

Predictions of two-stage learning theories were evaluated by measuring observing responses which produced the discriminative stimuli for .5 sec. (Editor)

This paper discussed two probe techniques (blank trials and introacts) in explorations of problem solving by adults and children. The implications for H (hypothesis) theory, developmental theory, and developmental research are also discussed. (Editor/RK)

The present experiment was designed to specify more clearly the function of IARs in VD learning by varying the number of taxonomic categories used to make up the VD lists. (Author)

Kindergarten children were trained to make same-different judgments of either 2 or 4 standard figures under either 2 or 4 transformations before being transferred to a novel set of figures. (Editor)