The Effect on Learning of Post Instructional Verbal Responses to Questions of Different Degrees of Complexity

The interplay of language and human conceptual learning, though complex, is a fundamental factor that pervades most, if not all, of education. In a classroom, the learning of a concept is usually interpreted as a student\u27s mastering of conceptual principles and, by some method, being able to verbalize them for a teacher. In teaching for concept learning, students are given some form of instruction or instructional material that may include lectures, readings, working with apparatus (laboratory-type classes), etc