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Peer reviewedTurnure, James E.; Thurlow, Martha L. – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1976
Methodological and substantive issues concerning the relative efficacy of various kinds of verbal elaborations on the learning and reversal performance of paired noun items by 6- to 7-year-old children were studied. Results indicated that a verbal elaboration methodology could be a viable approach to studying discourse and other language-based…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grade 1, Learning Theories, Paired Associate Learning
Download full textMontague, Ruth B. – 1970
The purpose of this study was to test associative skills by means of a paired-associate task with varied mediational instructions. Subjects were 84 first grade ghetto children, 25% of whom were from Spanish-speaking homes; virtually all the other subjects were black. The 3 x 2 x 4 factorial design included: three mediation sets (imagery,…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Disadvantaged, Grade 1, Imagery
Peer reviewedDenison, Joseph W. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Cognitive Processes, Grade 1, Learning Processes
ROHWER, WILLIAM D., JR.; AND OTHERS
THIS STUDY WAS INITIATED TO DETERMINE WHY CHILDREN OF LOWER SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS, WHO DO INFERIOR WORK ON SCHOOL-RELATED LEARNING TASKS WHEN COMPARED TO UPPER SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS CHILDREN, LEARN AS EFFICIENTLY AS UPPER LEVEL CHILDREN ON PAIRED-ASSOCIATE TASKS. THE SAMPLE CONSISTED OF 120 LOWER STATUS CHILDREN AND 120 UPPER STATUS CHILDREN,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Comparative Testing, Grade 1, Grade 3
