The Factors of Placement and Intensity of Emphasis in Learning

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Date

1939

Authors

Porter, Jr, Elias Hull

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University of Oregon

Abstract

One purpose of this thesis will be to clarify the results of previous experimenters in regard to the particular problem investigated and principles discovered. A second purpose of this thesis is to present new experimental evidence and an explanatory hypothesis for the first mentioned problem, that of the relative efficacy of emphasizers which bear information of correctness and which accompany correct or incorrect responses.

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59 pages

Keywords

education, correct response, incorrect response, emphasis in learning, information

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