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Treichler, F. Robert; Riccio, Brenda B. – J Exp Psychol, 1970
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Discrimination Learning, Stimuli, Task Performance
Robbins, Donald – J Exp Psychol, 1970
The amount of reinforcement received during initial learning activities has a direct effect on the ability to transfer training. (CK)
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Stimuli, Task Performance, Transfer of Training
Partong, David A.; Fouts, Gregory T. – J Exp Child Psychol, 1969
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Positive Reinforcement, Reinforcement, Responses
Dawson, Michael E. – J Exp Psychol, 1970
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Conditioning, Discrimination Learning, Responses
Schultz, Roger F.; Dodd, David H. – Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1972
Experiments reported here confirm the finding that performance can actually improve as intradimensional variability increases. (Authors/MB)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Data Analysis, Discrimination Learning, Performance Factors
Peer reviewedWestling, David L.; Koorland, Mark A. – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1979
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, Discrimination Learning, Handicapped Children, Records (Forms)
Whitehurst, Grover J. – J Exp Child Psychol, 1969
Based on the author's M.A. dissertation submitted to the University of Illinois, Urbana.
Descriptors: Age, Difficulty Level, Discipline, Discrimination Learning
Download full textBozinou, Efthymia; Goulet, L. R. – 1970
This study investigated the spontaneous use of verbal mediators in discrimination learning, the transfer of mediators to a free recall task, and the effects of a pretraining task on performance. The discrimination tasks required nursery school children (80) to: (1) sort three instances each of two different concepts in a conceptually consistent…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Discrimination Learning, Learning Processes, Mediation Theory
Clark, Gilbert A. – 1972
The research reported here was designed to measure the abilities of school-age children to form and generalize "visual concepts" on the basis of their observation of prepared sets of art reproductions. The art reproduction sets displayed similarities based upon various visual attributes. Discrimination of the attributes common to any…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Art, Children, Classification
