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Lathey, Jonathan W.; Tobias, Sigmund – 1981
An aptitude treatment interaction was predicted in which 30 retarded adolescents were expected to profit most from associative training and 30 intellectually average third graders most from conceptual training. Ss received either associative training designed to strengthen direct associations among pairs of conceptually related members of a free…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Associative Learning, Concept Teaching, Learning Processes
Berg, Paul C., Ed.; George, John E., Ed. – 1968
The three papers presented in this publication examine in depth the thought and practices that currently prevail in the specialized areas of reading and concept attainment. Two of the papers deal with concept learning and the transformation of this knowledge into instructional guidelines. The third paper considers the importance o f concept…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Associative Learning, Child Development, Concept Formation
Berg, Paul C., Ed.; George, John E., Ed. – 1968
The three papers presented in this publication examines in depth the thought and practices that currently prevail in the specialized areas of reading and concept attainment. Two of the papers deal with concept learning and the transformation of this knowledge into instructional guidelines. The third paper considers the importance of concept…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Associative Learning, Child Development, Concept Formation
Donald, Janet Gail – 1980
The contributions of psychology, theoretically and experimentally, to university teaching are examined from the perspective of educational epistemology. The most basic theoretical contribution that psychology has made to cognitive learning has been the delineation of a unit of thinking, the concept, which acts as an organizer of experience. The…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes, College Instruction