Learning to Read Words: Effects of Overlearning and Similarity on Stimulus Selection
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- 1 March 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Reading Behavior
- Vol. 11 (1), 69-71
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10862967909547308
Abstract
Kindergarten children needed more trials to learn a list of similar than dissimilar words but made fewer over-generalization errors on subsequent transfer tasks. A third group of children, trained on the dissimilar list, was given overlearning trials to make up for the additional training trials needed by the similar group. While the overlearning and similar groups did not differ on over-generalization errors, both made fewer errors than were made by the dissimilar group. The authors conclude that over-generalization errors fade with over-learning and should not unduly alarm teachers.Keywords
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