Some Hypotheses About Negative Instances in Single-Attribute Concept Attainment.

Heim, Stephen V.; Scholnick, Ellin Kofsky

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Publication Date: 1972

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Some Hypotheses About Negative Instances in Single-Attribute Concept Attainment

Heim, Stephen V.; Scholnick, Ellin Kofsky

Journal of Experimental Psychology, 93, 1, 130-7, Apr 72

Article reveals that positive instance errors arose more often from memory deficits and from choice of irrelevant dimensions. Negative instance errors arose when interpreting information about present stimuli and the relevant dimension. (Author)

Descriptors: Concept Formation, Educational Research, Error Patterns, Information Seeking, Learning Theories, Memory, Reinforcement, Relevance (Information Retrieval)

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