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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
Peer reviewedSpradlin, Joseph E.; And Others – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1973
Descriptors: Adolescents, Concept Formation, Conditioning, Discrimination Learning
Dickerson, Donald J. – 1968
Six experiments examined the problem-solving behavior of normal and mentally retarded (MR) children with a two-choice discrimination learning situation: the effects of stimulus similarity upon types of solutions utilized by MR children; the role of redundant cues in the discrimination learning of MR subjects with differing mental ages; the…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Children, Cognitive Processes, College Students
