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Response Time Variability Signatures of Novel Word Learning
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Solovyeva, Katya; DeKeyser, Robert – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2018
Response time variability and its changes over time have been interpreted as indicative of levels of knowledge automatization. Predominantly, only declines in variability have been examined over the course of practice and growing second language proficiency. We discuss possible scenarios that may involve increasing, rather than declining…
Descriptors: Reaction Time, Vocabulary Development, Memory, Learning Processes
Making Probabilistic Relational Categories Learnable
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Jung, Wookyoung; Hummel, John E. – Cognitive Science, 2015
Theories of relational concept acquisition (e.g., schema induction) based on structured intersection discovery predict that relational concepts with a probabilistic (i.e., family resemblance) structure ought to be extremely difficult to learn. We report four experiments testing this prediction by investigating conditions hypothesized to facilitate…
Descriptors: Schemata (Cognition), Concept Formation, Probability, Educational Experiments
Prompted Journal Writing Supports Preservice History Teachers in Drawing on Multiple Knowledge Domains for Designing Learning Tasks
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Wäschle, Kristin; Lehmann, Thomas; Brauch, Nicola; Nückles, Matthias – Peabody Journal of Education, 2015
Becoming a history teacher requires the integration of pedagogical knowledge, pedagogical content knowledge, and content knowledge. Because the integration of knowledge from different disciplines is a complex task, we investigated prompted learning journals as a method to support teacher students' knowledge integration. Fifty-two preservice…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, History Instruction, Journal Writing, Prompting
Effects of Spaced versus Massed Training in Function Learning
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McDaniel, Mark A.; Fadler, Cynthia L.; Pashler, Harold – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2013
A robust finding in the literature is that spacing material leads to better retention than massing; however, the benefit of spacing for concept learning is less clear. When items are massed, it may help the learner to discover the relationship between instances, leading to better abstraction of the underlying concept. Two experiments addressed…
Descriptors: Intervals, Learning Processes, Learning Strategies, Task Analysis
When Prior Knowledge Interferes, Inhibitory Control Matters for Learning: The Case of Numerical Magnitude Representations
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Laski, Elida V.; Dulaney, Alana – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2015
The present study tested the "interference hypothesis"-that learning and using more advanced representations and strategies requires the inhibition of prior, less advanced ones. Specifically, it examined the relation between inhibitory control and number line estimation performance. Experiment 1 compared the accuracy of adults' (N = 53)…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Learning Processes, Inhibition, Interference (Learning)
Qualitative Differences between Implicit and Explicit Sequence Learning
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Jimenez, Luis; Vaquero, Joaquin M. M.; Lupianez, Juan – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2006
Four experiments investigate the differences between implicit and explicit sequence learning concerning their resilience to structural and superficial task changes. A superficial change that embedded the SRT task in the context of a selection task, while maintaining the sequence, did selectively hinder the expression of implicit learning. In…
Descriptors: Sequential Learning, Learning Processes, Context Effect, Metacognition