TY - JOUR
T1 - Effect of memory on distinctive features and schema learning
AU - Durant, Mitchell J.
AU - Yussen, Steven R.
PY - 1976/5
Y1 - 1976/5
N2 - Past research has distinguished between 2 alternative representational systems that are used in perceptual learning--distinctive features and schemas. In the present study, data from 96 kindergartners were used to study the influence of short-term memory on the initial utility of these systems and the influence of long-term memory on retention of these forms of learning. All Ss received a pretraining, training, immediate-transfer, and delayed-transfer phase with a series of visual discrimination problems under a variety of training conditions. Results show that neither short- nor long-term memory influenced the pattern of learning. Distinctive-features training facilitated learning relative to a control group whether the discrimination problem required short-term memory (successive) or did not (simultaneous), and whether the facilitation was examined for the immediate- or delayed-transfer test. Schema learning never facilitated transfer performance. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved).
AB - Past research has distinguished between 2 alternative representational systems that are used in perceptual learning--distinctive features and schemas. In the present study, data from 96 kindergartners were used to study the influence of short-term memory on the initial utility of these systems and the influence of long-term memory on retention of these forms of learning. All Ss received a pretraining, training, immediate-transfer, and delayed-transfer phase with a series of visual discrimination problems under a variety of training conditions. Results show that neither short- nor long-term memory influenced the pattern of learning. Distinctive-features training facilitated learning relative to a control group whether the discrimination problem required short-term memory (successive) or did not (simultaneous), and whether the facilitation was examined for the immediate- or delayed-transfer test. Schema learning never facilitated transfer performance. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved).
KW - long &
KW - retention of distinctive features &
KW - schemas in perceptual learning, kindergartners
KW - short term memory, initial utility &
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U2 - 10.1037/0278-7393.2.3.315
DO - 10.1037/0278-7393.2.3.315
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:58149407869
SN - 0096-1515
VL - 2
SP - 315
EP - 321
JO - Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory
JF - Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory
IS - 3
ER -