Blocking as a friend of induction in verbal category learning.

We conducted an experiment to investigate the influences of interleaved versus blocked presentation of disparate verbal exemplars on the induction of category concepts. The practice schedules of four experimental groups were juxtaposed such that sets of exemplar-category associations were either sol...

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Publicado en:Memory & Cognition Vol. 44; no. 7; pp. 1000 - 1014
Autores principales: Sorensen, Linda, Woltz, Dan
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature Oct2016
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          Urban Institute for Teacher Education , University of Utah , 1721 Campus Center Drive, SAEC 2248 Salt Lake City 84112 USA
          Department of Educational Psychology , University of Utah , Salt Lake City USA
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