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Effect of Perceptual Pretraining on Children's Concept Performance with Nonpreferred Relevant Dimensions: Evidence for the Role of Attentional Strategies.
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Toppino, Thomas C.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1979
Two experiments investigated why perceptual pretraining facilitates children's performance on concept problems involving a nonpreferred relevant dimension and preferred irrelevant dimensions. (JMB)
Descriptors: Attention, Concept Formation, Dimensional Preference, Kindergarten Children
Dimensional Salience and Developmental Effects Upon the Learning of Rules.
Katsuyama, Ronald M.; Hoffarth, Gary D. – 1978
This study had two major purposes: to examine the effects of dimensional salience upon the learning of conjunction and disjunction rules, and to investigate an alternative to the prevailing cognitive-change accounts of developmental differences in multidimensional problem solving. The relative salience of each of four stimulus dimensions (form,…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Dimensional Preference
The Effects of Introtacts on Hypothesis Testing in Kindergarten and First-Grade Children.
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Cantor, Joan H.; Spiker, Charles C. – Child Development, 1979
Subjects were trained against their initial dimensional preference in a two-dimensional simultaneous discrimination learning task. (RH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Dimensional Preference, Discrimination Learning, Elementary School Students