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Download full textDean, Morris – 1981
A psychological model can show the technical writer how to present information for effective communication by explaining how readers perceive, understand, learn, and remember. The principles underlying the model are the reader's psychological set, the mind's pattern-forming tendencies, the span of short-term memory, and the mind's need for…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Experimental Psychology, Models, Reinforcement
Fouts, Gregory T. – 1972
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of being imitated on behaviors of preschool children. Each of 24 subjects was given a choice of three responses in a marble-dropping task and was required to make one choice, after which an experimenter either imitated or did not imitate a subject's behavior. The results indicated that when a…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Experimental Psychology, Extinction (Psychology), Imitation
Mussen, Paul – 1977
Research in the development of prosocial behavior in children is better done by naturalistic than by experimental methods. The choice of what problems to address in social science research depends upon value commitments. The ultimate criterion for evaluating research in the behavioral sciences must be social relevance and utility. The dominant…
Descriptors: Children, Experimental Psychology, Individual Development, Models
