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Download full textHALL, VERNON C.; AND OTHERS – 1967
THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO DETERMINE THE RELATIVE INFLUENCE OF FIVE VARIABLES (INITIAL INSTRUCTIONS, REWARD, LETTER SIZE, TYPE OF WARM-UP, AND FEEDBACK) ON KINDERGARTEN CHILDREN'S PERFORMANCE OF A LETTER DISCRIMINATION TASK. IT HAS BEEN ARGUED THAT ATTENTION IS THE KEY FACTOR IN LETTER DISCRIMINATION. THE PRESENT STUDY PROPOSES THAT A…
Descriptors: Attention, Discrimination Learning, Kindergarten Children, Perception
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
Tighe, Thomas J.; Tighe, Louise S – J Exp Child Psychol, 1969
Research supported by Public Health Service Research Grant MH-11088 from the National Institute of Mental Health.
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Discrimination Learning, Grade 1, Perception
Sherman, James A. – 1967
Two 4-year-old children were shown the use of an apparatus whereby they could obtain toys and candy by making certain responses. The apparatus was a matching-to-sample device on which were arranged five response buttons in a circle and one in the middle. Each response button had a display window for the stimulus. Four of the five windows on the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Tests, Conditioning, Discrimination Learning, Perception
Peer reviewedFernandez, Barbara Quigley; Richman, Charles L. – Journal of Psychology, 1979
Preschoolers learned colors more rapidly than sizes and forms when cup stimuli were used. They learned sizes and forms more rapidly than colors when face stimuli were used. (RL)
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Perception, Preschool Children, Preschool Education
Kidd, John W. – J Learning Disabilities, 1970
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Exceptional Child Education, Learning Disabilities, Learning Processes
Smothergill, D. W.; Cook, Harold – 1969
The author initially cites the associationistic position of Spiker and the perceptual learning position of E. Gibson and concludes that the existing data does not clearly support either hypothesis. He describes a new approach designed to test these explanations of the role of verbal pretraining on subsequent discrimination learning. It consists of…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Child Language, Conditioning, Discrimination Learning
