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Thirty superior 13-year-old girls were confronted with a concept attainment task under conditions of preresponse prompting, postresponse confirmation, or a free choice condition in which the S, on each trial, could elect to have her responses prompted or confirmed. Results indicated no significant differences between these conditions during acquisition. However, free choice Ss evidenced significantly greater ability for both verbalization of the concept and generalization of the rule to a second set of stimuli. Free choice Ss tended to elect prompts as a decreasing function of trials.
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Le Furgy, W.G., Sisserson, J.A. Effects of prompting, confirmation, and free choice upon children’s acquisition, verbalization and generalization of a concept. Psychon Sci 12, 277–278 (1968). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03331308
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