Abstract
The purpose of this study was to assess the effects of the examples occurring in daily life upon rule learning. The Ss were junior high school students and undergraduates. The texts contained three short stories, each describing a natural law and its example. Ss were assigned to one of 2 x 2 conditions. One condition concerned the kind of example. Examples occurring in daily life or occurring in a laboratory were chosen to explain the natural laws. The other condition concerned the advance notice of the post-test. Before reading the text, one half of the Ss were given the notice of the post-test while the other half were not. The main results were as follows; Examples in daily life promoted a desirable view on learning a rule, and aroused higher interest in both junior high school children and undergraduates. Advance notice of the post-test did not affect these effects. But examples in daily life did not facilitate problem solving in junior high school children. The obtained results were discussed from the viewpoint of its practice in a classroom surrounding.
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