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Nelson, Douglas L.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1973
The purpose of this experiment was to determine if the verbal system is involved in coding pictorial reresentations when the task requires the acquisition of their relative order. (Author)
Descriptors: Memory, Paired Associate Learning, Pictorial Stimuli, Psychological Studies
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Bower, A. C.; Das, J. P. – British Journal of Psychology, 1972
Acquisition, reversal, adaptation and inhibition of the orienting response were investigated in a mentally retarded sample and its CA and MA matched normal groups. (Authors)
Descriptors: Conditioning, Extinction (Psychology), Handicapped Children, Inhibition
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Geshuri, Yossef – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1972
Primary purpose of this study was to examine the effect of observed verbal reward to a model on an observer's performance while controlling for the presentation of verbal consequences to the critical responses of the model. (Author)
Descriptors: Grade 1, Kindergarten Children, Learning Processes, Males
Ebert, Terry H.; Fallon, Daniel – Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1972
Of interest in the present experiment was the demonstration of the immediate direct effect of anticipation interval: the performance advantage of a chaining-paradigm group over a nonchaining-paradigm group was lost completely when the anticipation interval dropped from 4 seconds to 1 second. (Authors)
Descriptors: Behavior Chaining, Intervals, Learning Processes, Mediation Theory