Identifier: belltelephone6667mag00amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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e learning activity requiresisolating and studying one variable at a time, subject-ing every tentative hypothesis to statistical verifica-tion. Though this may seem like moving a mountainwith a teaspoon, there are a lot of people with tea-spoons attacking this mountain. The work of Bell Labs behavioral research labora-tory is divided into three broad fields with a numberof facets to each field: • A Sensory and Perceptual Processes group,whose studies include short-term and primary visualmechanisms; computer studies of depth perception;and the physiology of depth perception. • A Learning Processes and Measurement group,which includes a sociologist working on informationretrieval, plus psychologists specializing in subjectsranging from visual distortion to psycholinguistics. • A Human Information Processing group that in-cludes the Rothkopf studies in written materials, anexperiment in new forms of self-administered instruc-tion, a statistical analysis of speech quality, and an 12
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effort to plot the mental processes involved in retriev-ing material from memory. What we get from this, Dr. Rothkopf observes,are pipelines to findings in many fields. Besides hisown studies conducted here, each psychologist keepsup-to-date in his speciality and is alert to apply whatis discovered elsewhere, in this way the Bell Systemcan apply what may be pertinent to its needs, and atthe same time support work that contributes to thegeneral body of knowledge which others—educators,for example—can also use. Questions dictate reading strategy One current series of Dr. Rothkopfs experimentsof special interest to educators and training directorszeros in on the role of questions in producing meth-emagenic behavior. Tests he has conducted overseveral years have convinced him that the nature andtiming of test questions play a key role in learning. According to the experiments we have made sofar, people adjust their reading according to whatthey have previously been tested for. But the

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