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Peer reviewedAchenbach, Thomas M. – Developmental Psychology, 1975
This study indicated that the school performance and intelligence quotients of associative responders diverge significantly over time from those of nonassociative responders. This divergence becomes greater with age, suggesting that reliance on associative responding in preference to reasoning may cumulatively interfere with intellectual…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Associative Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Intellectual Development
Peer reviewedBusemeyer, Jerome; And Others – Cognitive Psychology, 1997
A new paradigm is presented for investigating how intervening concepts are learned. Results of four experiments involving 85 college students provide converging evidence for the acquisition of intervening concepts. A simple associative learning mechanism is proposed to account for the results. The new paradigm uses a stimulus-response-feedback…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Associative Learning, College Students, Concept Formation
