The purpose of these trials is to provide sufficient practice for name classification to be easily and fluently carried our, and reaction times are not to be analyzed during these trials. Following the pretest and practice, face-name interference stimuli follows. The student is asked to ignore the faces and continue classifying the names as being those of politicians or nonpoliticians as quickly and accurately as possible. Evaluation Observations should be charted and graphed to reflect student progress. Posttest performance represented dramatic improvements over baseline.
Faces interfere with name classification in a prosopagnosic patient.
Coaching, provided explanation , or no explanation control. The students involved in the coaching group received both factual information and a sequence of questions designed to help them construct explanations for the information. If the appropriate explanation was given coaching would cease, but if not another question would be asked, and so on. Students in the provided explanation group were provided with factual information and associated explanations, and students in the no explanation group received only the target information. Evaluation Tests of immediate recall of target information and explanations were administered.