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Ash, Ivan K.; Jee, Benjamin D.; Wiley, Jennifer – Journal of Problem Solving, 2012
Gestalt psychologists proposed two distinct learning mechanisms. Associative learning occurs gradually through the repeated co-occurrence of external stimuli or memories. Insight learning occurs suddenly when people discover new relationships within their prior knowledge as a result of reasoning or problem solving processes that re-organize or…
Descriptors: Intuition, Learning Processes, Metacognition, Associative Learning
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McCabe, David P.; Balota, David A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2007
Three experiments are reported examining the effect of context on remember-know judgments. In Experiments 1 and 2, medium-frequency words were intermixed with high-frequency or low-frequency words at study or at test, respectively. Remember responses were greater for medium-frequency targets when they were studied or tested among high-frequency,…
Descriptors: Heuristics, Context Effect, Incidence, Word Recognition
Rowe, Edward J.; Paivio, Allan – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1971
Results of research presented at the meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, New York, New York, April 1970. (VM)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Discrimination Learning, Educational Experiments, Imagery