Children's
Oddity Learning as a Function of Instruction and Task
T. Sugimura |
Kindergarten
children (mean age of 5:8) were given a standard task with color
or form dimension and a dimension-abstracted (DA) task with color
and form dimensions under one of the instructions which made the
subjects attend to the relevant dimension, to the oddity relation,
and to the relevant dimension and the oddity relation. The standard
oddity learning was facilitated by the relation and the dimension-relation
instructions but not by the dimension instruction. The DA, oddity
learning was facilitated by the three instructions and the dimension-relation
instruction was the most effective. These findings suggest that for
the standard task the relational component exists but the dimensional
one does not in the learning process while for the DA task both the
dimensional and the relational components exist in the learning process.
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