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Vance, Billie J.; Siegel, Alexander W. – Psychonomic Science, 1971
This study was designed to assess the relative effectiveness of four components of pretraining on a subsequent simultaneous discrimination and reversal: (1) making same-different judgments about the two stimuli; (2) making a specific observing response to the critical feature of the stimuli; (3) simple familiarization with the stimuli; and (4)…
Descriptors: Children, Comparative Analysis, Discrimination Learning, Educational Environment
Aist, Eugene H.; Gerlach, Vernon S. – 1973
Additional support to a stimulus-response (S-R) association by the use of an extraneous stimulus is called "prompting." Prompting has an effect on learner achievement particularly if the prompting agent is identical on successive S-R trials. This experiment sought to analyze the differences in learner achievement when different prompting stimuli…
Descriptors: Achievement, Cues, Discrimination Learning, Electronics