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Download full textMurphy, Gregory L.; Smith, Edward E. – 1982
Previous studies have found that an object can be categorized faster at a basic level (hammer) than at either a subordinate (club hammer) or a superordinate level (tool). While some attribute this result to basic categories having more distinctive attributes, other factors might cause this result. For example, basic categories routinely have…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Classification, Cognitive Processes, Learning Theories
Restaino, Lillian C. R. – 1968
To investigate the underlying factors of visual discrimination, memory, rule abstraction, language, and serial ordering in reading success, 79 poor and 65 good deaf readers were administered a battery of tests. Poor readers were deficient in lower-order visual discrimination and memory abilities; higher-order visual discrimination skills were…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Exceptional Child Research, Hearing Impairments
