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Peer reviewedHiller, Jack H.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Education, 1973
Purpose of research was to examine the contribution that expectancy to teach could make as a possible incentive for meaningful verbal (school) learning. (Author)
Descriptors: Educational Experiments, Educational Research, Expectation, Learning Motivation
Hopkins, Ronald H.; Edwards, Richard E. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1972
Descriptors: Experiments, Learning Theories, Memory, Pronunciation
Peer reviewedJeffrey, D. Balfour – Mental Retardation, 1972
Operant and imitative techniques were used in programing generalization of verbal behavior in a child. (Author)
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Imitation, Mental Retardation, Verbal Learning
Peer reviewedKasschau, Richard A. – American Journal of Psychology, 1972
Article describes an experiment establishing the influence of meaningfulness of the ease of learning verbal material. (Author/MM)
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Learning Processes, Paired Associate Learning, Serial Learning
Peer reviewedWright, Patricia – Journal of Applied Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Cues, Discrimination Learning, Language
Peer reviewedRychlak, Joseph F.; And Others – Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Hypothesis Testing, Learning Theories, Paired Associate Learning
Balmuth, Miriam – Int Reading Assn Conf Proc Pt2, 1968
Reviews research concerning (1) the superiority of one modality over another, (2) the simultaneous use of different modalities, and (3) modality studies specifically focused on reading. Includes a pro-reaction and a con-reaction paper. Bibliography. (WB)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Learning Theories, Research Reviews (Publications), Verbal Learning
Peer reviewedBowen, John H. – Psychological Reports, 1971
Descriptors: Adjectives, Attitudes, Language Usage, Personality Theories
Kinsbourne, Marcel; Evens, Nicholas – Psychol Rep, 1970
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Learning Processes, Pronunciation, Recognition
Tighe, Thomas J.; Tighe, Louise S – J Exp Child Psychol, 1969
This study supported by a Public Health Service Research Grant, establishes "that discrimination reversal learning and transposition can be markedly facilitated by a common training procedure which is essentially perceptual in nature. (Author)
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Learning Theories, Mediation Theory, Perceptual Development
Peer reviewedBates, Paul; Renzaglia, Adelle – Education and Treatment of Children, 1982
A profoundly retarded adolescent acquired 14 new verbal labels while playing a table game which required correct labeling of pictured stimuli for player movement. In addition, the subject's leisure skills were strengthened. (Author/CL)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Games, Language Acquisition, Leisure Time
Peer reviewedGroninger, Lowell D.; Groninger, Linda Knapp – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 1982
An experiment was designed to determine whether or not images are directly involved in the retrieval process. The results provided evidence for the direct involvement of images in both the encoding and retrieval processes for words. (Author/PN)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Definitions, Higher Education, Imagery
Peer reviewedBlackman, Leonard S.; And Others – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1982
The effectiveness of a program, varying in presentation format, in promoting the acquisition and generalization of a verbal abstraction strategy was evaluated for 80 mildly retarded Ss (mean age 12 to 14 years). Although the acquisition and near generalization of the verbal abstraction strategy was advanced, no far generalization was observed.…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Generalization, Junior High Schools, Mild Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedGreenberg, Jan – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1979
Twenty-four students (9 to 13 years old) were questioned about the metaphoric content of poetry, paintings, and dance. Interviews dealing with poetry were briefer and less animated than those dealing with paintings, suggesting that improving the capacity to understand metaphor in reading materials is a desirable goal. (CL)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Dance, Elementary Education, Metaphors
Hayes-Roth, Barbara; Thorndyke, Perry W. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1979
Three experiments investigated factors influencing the integration of facts acquired from texts. Subjects encountered related facts in the context of relatively long, meaningful texts, a single text, or in two separate texts. Results indicate that integration can occur in both cases. (SW)
Descriptors: Language Processing, Language Research, Learning Theories, Linguistic Theory
