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Bourne, L. E., Jr.; Miller, Shirley – Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1973
Purpose of this experiment was to explore the effects of pre- and postshift stimulus similarity, type of shift, and difficulty of discrimination in the standard solution shift - concept identification paradigm. (Authors/CB)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Discrimination Learning, Performance Factors, Shift Studies
Peer reviewedSpiker, Charles C.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1972
Predictions for multidimensional generalization were derived from Hull-Spence learning theory, and an experiment is reported that was designed to test this aspect of the theory. Alternative to this analysis is presented in PS 502 062; authors respond in PS 502 063. (Authors/MB)
Descriptors: Dimensional Preference, Discrimination Learning, Goodness of Fit, Kindergarten Children
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
