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Peer reviewedClark, Peter; Rutter, Michael – Journal of Autism and Childhood Schizophrenia, 1977
The researchers explored factors related to negativism in 27 elementary age autistic children, where negativism was defined as the consistent avoidance of a correct response in a multiple choice discrimination task. (Author)
Descriptors: Autism, Discrimination Learning, Elementary Education, Negative Attitudes
Peer reviewedMorrison, Delmont; And Others – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1971
Descriptors: Adults, Aphasia, Autism, Behavior Patterns
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
Wilder, Larry – 1971
The frequency theory of verbal discrimination learning makes no distinction between silent and spoken rehearsal. Further, the frequency theory predicts that the study-test method of list presentation is superior to the anticipation method. College students, performing under silent and spoken rehearsal conditions, learned 16 low-frequency…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Articulation (Speech), Cognitive Processes, College Students
