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Download full textEdmonds, Ed M. – 1973
A schema is best understood as a statistically defined concept. Schematic concept formation consists of abstracting the common elements or properties of a defined class in a schema. Thereafter, both discrimination and retention are facilitated, since only deviations from the schema need be processed for any particular class exemplar. In the…
Descriptors: Children, Concept Formation, Developmental Tasks, Discrimination Learning
Edmonds, Ed M. – 1969
The purpose of the two experiments was to assess the effects of two levels of stimulus redundancy and three levels of irrelevant visual stimulation on performance in a successive discrimination task and a reproduction task. The results indicate that increases in redundancy facilitated performance in the reproduction task but had no appreciable…
Descriptors: College Students, Concept Formation, Discrimination Learning, Learning Processes
