Concept
and Memory Types in Sensory-Motor Conceptual Learning in Children
M. Matsuda & F. Matsuda |
Children
of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grades in an elementary school were given
tasks to learn finger mazes with two alternatives at each of nine
choice points. At each choice point there was one of two kinds of
texture and the textures were set to connect with correct positions.
Though the tasks were made to be able to be learned easily by conceptual
thinking (Concet Type), some subjects seemed to learn them by memorizing
correct position at each of nine choice paints (Memory Type). Generally,
in subjects of Memory Type, numbers of trials to the criterion were
larger, serial position effects of choice points were stronger, and
rates of error choices and response times from start to goal decreased
more smoothly through the learning process than those in subjects
of Concept Type.
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