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Download full textTurnure, James E.; Thurlow, Martha L. – 1972
Reported were two studies designed to clarify the effects of verbal elaboration on children's learning. Study I was undertaken to replicate, with controlled training times, an earlier investigation of the effects of three types of extended verbal elaboration (sentences, semantic paragraphs, and syntactic paragraphs). Trials to criterion analyses…
Descriptors: Learning, Mediation Theory, Paired Associate Learning, Paragraphs
COOPER, CARIN – 1968
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN READING ABILITY AND SYNTACTICAL MEDIATION IN PAIRED-ASSOCIATE (PA) LEARNING WAS EXAMINED. SUBJECTS WERE 64 FOURTH AND SECOND GRADERS IN WISCONSIN WHO WERE GROUPED ACCORDING TO GRADE LEVEL, TWO READING LEVELS, TWO TYPES OF INSTRUCTION, AND SEX. THE INSTRUCTIONAL TYPES WERE MEDIATION AND NONMEDIATION. THE STIMULI WERE 16…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Grade 4, Learning, Mediation Theory
Turnure, James E.; Thurlow, Martha L. – 1971
Two studies investigated characteristics of verbal elaborations (length and number of relations provided by the syntactic construction) to determine what makes them effective mediators for young children. Study I treated the role of an elaboration's length in facilitating paired associate learning in 22 nursery school children. Data indicated that…
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Learning, Mediation Theory, Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedBorkowski, John G.; Wanschura, Patricia B. – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1975
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Processes, Exceptional Child Research, Learning
Taylor, Arthur M.; And Others – 1971
The effects of two types of elaboration training (imagery and sentence generation) on the paired associate learning of 32 educable mentally retarded children (aged 9 to 13 years were compared over two levels of verbalization (none and overt). Each S was first tested on a warmup list, then trained to generate elaborations, and finally given two…
Descriptors: Children, Exceptional Child Research, Imagery, Learning
Gallagher, Joseph W. – Amer J Ment Deficiency, 1969
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Institutionalized Persons, Learning, Mediation Theory
Mankinen, Richard – 1972
Educable mentally retarded students were taught a verbal mediation learning strategy to determine if their performance pattern would correspond to learning potential designations derived with nonverbal materials. In comparisons of regular and special class groups using a picture paired-associates learning task, special class high-scorers performed…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Exceptional Child Research, Junior High School Students, Learning
Montague, William E.; Kiess, Harold O. – 1967
To obtain an a priori estimate of natural language mediators (NLM's) 320 pairs of words with the consonant-vowel-consonant-pattern (CVC's) were broken into four series of 90 pairs and presented to 240 male and female undergraduates. Pairs were shown for 15 seconds while the subjects wrote down any associative device or NLM they could generate that…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Exceptional Child Research, Learning, Learning Processes
Allen, Doris V. – 1969
Three experiments tested whether qualitative differences in processing of verbal materials result from congenital hearing impairment. Subjects were children with reading levels equivalent to grades 4 to 6. Experiment 1 used repeated measurements with two modes of response and two kinds of cues; experiment 2 used acoustic similarity to produce…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Auditory Training, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
