Descriptor
| Discrimination Learning | 8 |
| Elementary School Students | 8 |
| Hypothesis Testing | 8 |
| Age Differences | 4 |
| Problem Solving | 4 |
| Cognitive Processes | 3 |
| Learning Processes | 3 |
| Elementary Education | 2 |
| Feedback | 2 |
| Research Methodology | 2 |
| Adults | 1 |
| More ▼ | |
Author
| Offenbach, Stuart I. | 3 |
| Cantor, Joan H. | 2 |
| Spiker, Charles C. | 2 |
| Kemler, Deborah G. | 1 |
| Richman, Shanna | 1 |
| Williams, Brian R. | 1 |
Publication Type
| Journal Articles | 4 |
| Reports - Research | 3 |
| Speeches/Meeting Papers | 1 |
Education Level
Audience
Location
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Peer reviewedCantor, Joan H.; Spiker, Charles C. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1978
A specially designed discrimination learning task was used to investigate whether the performance of kindergarten and first grade children could be improved through explicit training with a simple hypothesis-testing strategy. (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Elementary School Students, Hypothesis Testing, Problem Solving
Peer reviewedOffenbach, Stuart I. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1973
Second graders were administered a two-choice discrimination task in which irrelevant dimensions were correlated .50, .75, or 1.00 with the 100 percent rewarded cue. Results indicate that learning was most impeded in the .75 condition and was most efficient in the 1.00 condition. These results support the Hypothesis Testing Theory of…
Descriptors: Attention, Cues, Discrimination Learning, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewedWilliams, Brian R. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1974
Presents a procedure for estimating the probability of true hypothesis behavior, including a validity test for the resulting estimate. The procedure is applied to data taken from three research reports, and reveals substantial differences between age and treatment groups. Also discusses implications of the procedure for correctly interpreting…
Descriptors: Age Groups, Discrimination Learning, Elementary School Students, Feedback
Peer reviewedOffenbach, Stuart I. – Developmental Psychology, 1974
This study tested Levine's hypothesis testing model of discrimination learning with a procedure for determining which hypothesis is sampled without introducing blank trials. (DP)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Behavioral Science Research, College Students
Peer reviewedCantor, Joan H.; Spiker, Charles C. – Child Development, 1979
Subjects were trained against their initial dimensional preference in a two-dimensional simultaneous discrimination learning task. (RH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Dimensional Preference, Discrimination Learning, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewedOffenbach, Stuart I. – Child Development, 1980
According to Hypothesis (H) theory, learning should be very difficult when the number of Hs the subject samples from is very large and/or the correct H is not available. These assumptions were tested with third- and fourth-grade children. In general, results supported these assumptions. (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Discrimination Learning, Elementary School Students, Failure
Peer reviewedKemler, Deborah G. – Developmental Psychology, 1978
Three studies of elementary school children's problem-solving procedures in intentional discrimination tasks are reported. Subjects were children selected from kindergarten and grades 2, 3, and 6. (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Discrimination Learning, Elementary Education
Richman, Shanna – 1976
This study was designed to investigate the effects of modeling or training with and without rule provision on the employment of strategies in solving four-dimensional, discrimination-learning problems. Subjects were 144 second and sixth-grade children from the New York City Public Schools. The blank-trial hypothesis testing paradigm was used. The…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Discrimination Learning, Educational Research
