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Underwood, Geoffrey – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1977
Listeners shadowed lists of words or parts of sentences, and shadowing latencies were recorded. The effect of attended context was interpreted as a result of strategical manipulation of response bias (a resource-limited process), whereas unattended context may be effective through spreading excitation in semantic memory (a data-limited process).…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Decoding (Reading), Reading Processes, Reading Research
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Skuy, Mervyn; And Others – Gifted Child Quarterly, 1990
The study with 99 13 to 18-year-old Black students in the Soweto (South Africa) Gifted Child Program indicated that 50-58 percent of the variance in performance was accounted for by 2 subtests (the Verbal Analogies Test and the Organiser) of the Learning Potential Assessment Device and the Similarities subtests of the Wechsler scales. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Blacks, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries, Gifted Disadvantaged
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Schooler, Jonathan W.; Engstler-Schooler, Tonya Y. – Cognitive Psychology, 1990
The hypothesis that describing a visual memory can result in recoding interference was investigated in a series of 6 experiments with 518 college students. Collective results were consistent with the hypothesis; verbalizing memory can produce a verbally biased memory representation that can interfere with the original visual memory. (SLD)
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Memory, Recognition (Psychology)
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Bowers, Kenneth S.; And Others – Cognitive Psychology, 1990
A total of 308 undergraduates performed 2 word tasks and a gestalt closure task in a study of intuition. Subjects could respond discriminately to coherence they could not identify and were led by this perception to form a hunch or hypothesis. Clues to coherence evidently activate problem-solving networks. (SLD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Discovery Processes, Higher Education, Intuition
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Vorster, Jan – Language Sciences, 1988
Longitudinal studies of the application of a paraphrasing model to 18- to 28-month-olds indicated that mean length of utterance was significantly correlated with realized and paraphrased frequencies of several linguistic items in the subjects' corpora. The model was productive for examining children's corpora of speech and the linguistic…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Longitudinal Studies, Oral Language
Fletcher, Kathryn L.; Bray, Norman W. – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1995
Comparison of external memory strategies in 31 children (ages 11 and 17) with mild mental retardation and 64 children without mental retardation found no differences between children with mental retardation and their age peers in frequency of use of object-oriented strategies. For all groups, external strategies were used more frequently than…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cognitive Processes, Learning Strategies, Memory
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Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1992
In three experiments, adults and 30-month-old children (1) selected a novel object as the referent for a novel term; (2) extended the new word to another exemplar; and (3) allowed the new word to preempt another novel label from applying to the just-named object. (BC)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Classification, Comparative Analysis
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Cohen, Ronald L. – Intelligence, 1994
A case is made for the construction of nomothetic theories that can also explain individual differences. The discussion uses examples from the memory area and presents an approach to memory that explains individual findings and individual differences in the context of a single model. (SLD)
Descriptors: Encoding (Psychology), Individual Differences, Memory, Models
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Booth, Gregory D.; Cutietta, Robert A. – Journal of Research in Music Education, 1991
Presents results of a test of nonmusic majors' ability to remember song titles. Suggests that, although the process of categorization seems to be a basic function of perception, appropriate categorization needs to be learned. Supports the view that music learning, like verbal learning, involves a categorization of stimuli based on holistic…
Descriptors: Classification, Music Appreciation, Music Education, Nonmajors
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Baddeley, Alan; Gathercole, Susan; Papagno, Costanza – Psychological Review, 1998
A review of studies of word learning by normal adults and children, neuropsychological patients, and special development populations provides evidence that the phonological loop plays a crucial role in learning the novel phonological forms of new words, suggesting that the phonological loop stores unfamiliar sound patterns while more permanent…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Language Acquisition, Learning Disabilities
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Cole, Peter G.; Pheng, Lee Chee – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 1998
Thirty children with partial sight and 30 children with unimpaired sight (all 8- to 12-years old) received either verbal-mediation or visual-mediation training regimes. The verbal mediation training was superior to visual mediation training on a problem-solving task for both children with partial sight and children without visual impairments.…
Descriptors: Children, Instructional Effectiveness, Partial Vision, Problem Solving
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Yee, Eiling; Sedivy, Julie C. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2006
Two experiments explore the activation of semantic information during spoken word recognition. Experiment 1 shows that as the name of an object unfolds (e.g., lock), eye movements are drawn to pictorial representations of both the named object and semantically related objects (e.g., key). Experiment 2 shows that objects semantically related to an…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Word Recognition, Semantics, Language Research
Hausler, Joel; Sanders, John W.; Young, Barbara – Online Submission, 2007
We examined the relationship between learning styles and student type. This research seeks to examine if online students exhibit different learning styles from onsite students; and, if so, what accommodations relating to learning style differences may be made for online students? Students (N = 80) were asked to complete an online survey in order…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Electronic Learning, Cognitive Style, Student Characteristics
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Klin, Ami; Danovitch, Judith H.; Merz, Amanda B.; Volkmar, Fred R. – Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities (RPSD), 2007
Circumscribed interests are a fascinating and an understudied phenomenon in some individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Research in this area is likely to contribute to our understanding of ASDs and to advancing developmental knowledge on learning processes used to adapt to the demands of everyday social life. This study reports on a…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Verbal Learning, Social Life, Learning Processes
Knee, Kathleen; And Others – 1991
A group of 73 normal children (ages 8 to 10) was compared to 49 age-matched developmentally dyslexic children of average intelligence on the California Verbal Learning Test for Children (CVLT-C), to determine if reading disability was associated with impaired verbal memory. Dyslexics differed significantly from controls on 9 of the 12 CVLT-C…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Dyslexia, Elementary Education, Learning Processes
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