Browsing by Subject "Learning, Psychology of"
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1986)The purpose of the study was to determine if adults learn more effectively through a dominant sensory modality across or within subject matter. A set of 12 activities and tests was designed to teach concepts and rules and ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1982)The purpose of this study was to compare overall study habits of students with cognitive performance level in introductory plant physiology classes using two instructional approaches--auto tutorial and lecture-laboratory. ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1976)The purpose of this investigation was to determine the influence of different remediation strategies on student retention of cognitive achievement. Fifty-three students were randomly assigned to three treatment groups ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1986)The purpose of this study was to determine whether a systematic or non-systematic instructional strategy had an impact on blood cortisol levels in students in the post-secondary educational setting. A convenience sample ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1990)This purpose of this study was to examine the effects of teacher written comments of encouragement and praise on the locus of control of fourth and fifth grade spelling students. Two hundred and twenty-eight students from ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1976)The purpose of this investigation was to examine the effect of the perceived role of a model on the learning of operational police officers. Bandura (1969) has suggested that modeling is an efficient and effective means ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1987)This research studied the effects of advance disclosure of learning style on academic achievement and course satisfaction in adult learners. The subjects were 635 U.S. Air Force Security Police technical school students ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1981)Volunteers (53) from an introductory algebra class were divided into four treatment groups--hypnotherapy (Hy), relaxation training (RT), active control (AC) (classical music) and inactive control (IC). Hypotheses tested ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, )The purpose of this investigation was to examine the role of the teacher-model in influencing knowledges and attitudes of the learner. Bandura has suggested that learning should be considered as a social process wherein ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1986)It was the purpose of this study to examine the effects of two levels of professional development training in analogical reasoning on fourth-graders' performance of a verbal analogy task. Specifically, this study investigated ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, )The major objective of the study was to determine the effects of varying levels of monetary reinforcement on Deci's concept of intrinsic motivation. Using Deci's (1971) methodology and expanding it slightly, the variable ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1976)The present study examined the influence of neutral stimuli, highly negative affective stimuli, and highly positive affective stimuli on the learning of paired-associates in a male juvenile delinquent population. Subjects ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1984)The primary purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of the keyword mnemonic technique with special populations. To accomplish this purpose, eight states and capitals were randomly selected to teach 65 ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1984)The purpose of this study was to investigate causal attributions of learning disabled and normal achieving 7-8 and 11-12 year old boys for their success and failure performance on an academic task in a classroom setting. ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1983)Using Bandura's theory of observational learning or modeling, this study investigated the influence of model sex and model age on learning outcome. In addition, the influence of the observer's attitudes toward women on ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1976)The purpose of this study was to determine the processing demands during the acquisition of visually and kinesthetically controlled movements. For motor skills requiring different feedback information, location or distance ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1976)The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the number of relevant attributes a concept possesses and the number of moves in a teaching strategy necessary to teach the concept. The effects of ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1987)This study investigated the relationships of personality type and learning style of prenatal couples to satisfaction with various learning activities in childbirth education classes. Participating in the study were 39 ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 28 cm)This study compared children referred because of attentional problems in school on measures of intelligence, affect, sustained attention, and parent and teacher rating scales. Ninety-two boys, ranging in age from 7-12, ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1993)The purpose of this study was to investigate how children acquire mathematical concepts. Specifically, the study compared the achievement levels of the control and experimental groups following an intervention period. ...