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Weimer, Michael; Miller, Asenath A. – 1974
The study attempted to minimize nonspecific response strategies which supposedly mask the positive effect of perceptual pretraining on initial discrimination learning within the predifferentiation paradigm. The subjects were 44 first- and second-graders. Experimental-group subjects received rules learning (RL), pretraining, initial discrimination…
Descriptors: Cues, Discrimination Learning, Elementary School Students, Learning Theories
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Gulliksen, Harold; Voneida, Theodore – 1973
Sperry (1961) and others working on split brain learning reported that the two halves function in a nearly identical manner, giving excellent controlled replication of a learning problem. The present experiments were carried out with cats trained in a tactile discrimination apparatus, sometimes being forced to use the left paw, and sometimes being…
Descriptors: Cerebral Dominance, Discrimination Learning, Lateral Dominance, Learning Processes
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Kerpelman, Larry C. – Child Development, 1967
Four-, five-, and six-year-old children were used as subjects in this investigation. There were 192 experimental and 96 control children used, divided equally between the three age groups. The experimental children received a 1-minute pretest exposure procedure in which 1/4 of the children observed 4 two-dimensional stimuli (irregular pentagons),…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Discrimination Learning, Grade 1, Kindergarten Children