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Peer reviewedWard, Thomas B. – Child Development, 1980
The classifying behavior of five-year-old children and adults was examined in two studies of restricted classification using triads of stimuli composed of the dimensions of length and density. Results were consistent with the notion of separable perception for adults and integral perception for children. (Author/SS)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Classification, Patterned Responses
Peer reviewedBurack, Jacob A.; Enns, James T.; Iarocci, Grace; Randolph, Beth – Developmental Psychology, 2000
Examined visual search for compound patterns in 6-, 8-, 10-, and 22-year-olds. Found large improvements with age in search rate for long-range targets; search rate for short-range targets was fairly constant across age. This pattern held regardless of ease of perceptual access to target, supporting the hypothesis of different processes involved at…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Patterned Responses, Perceptual Development
