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Peer reviewedRunquist, Willard N.; Runquist, Peggy A. – American Journal of Psychology, 1976
This experiment demonstrated that people can utilize relative situational frequency of occurrence to differentiate similary categorizable target items in paired-associate learning. (Editor)
Descriptors: Charts, Classification, Learning Processes, Paired Associate Learning
Peer reviewedPalmer, Michael – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1974
Thirty institutionalized mildly retarded adolescent Ss and 30 matched MA elementary school nonretarded Ss were presented 18 items for five free-recall trials in a study of basic determinants of clustering behavior (the recall of sequences of related items following their random presentation). (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Classification, Exceptional Child Research, Institutionalized Persons
Peer reviewedCatherwood, Di; Boylan, Pamela – International Journal of Early Childhood, 1991
Fifty two- to three-year olds performed paired-associate or control tasks with response items that were related or unrelated. Children in the related task performed more slowly than children in the unrelated task. Findings suggest that children in the related task experienced interference in the acquisition or retrieval of paired-associate items.…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Processes, Encoding (Psychology), Foreign Countries
Kossan, Nancy E. – 1979
This study investigated developmental differences in the use of the common features abstraction strategy and the exemplar learning strategy for concept acquisition. Subjects were 30 second graders and 30 fifth graders. The concepts to be learned were two categories of artificial animals which differed on five dimensions. Each dimension had three…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Age Differences, Classification, Cognitive Development
