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Visual Complexity in Infancy: Contour or Numerosity?
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Greenberg, David J.; Blue, Sima Z. – Child Development, 1975
To examine the relationship between visual attention in infancy and the stimulus variables of contour and numerosity, 2- and 4-month-olds were placed in three experimental conditions. The results showed that contour and numerosity, acting in tandem, are responsible for the age-complexity shift observed by previous investigators of infant…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Dimensional Preference, Infants
The Role of Stimulus Dimensions in the Conservation of Substance
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Miller, Patricia H.; And Others – Child Development, 1973
Preschool and kindergarten nonconservers (N=114) were examined for their use of dimensions relevant to quantity in two conservation-of-substance tasks. The results were interpreted as being counter to Piaget's 4-step equilibration model of the development of compensation and conservation. (ST)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Conservation (Concept), Dimensional Preference
Preference for Color and Form in Preschoolers as Related to Color and Form Differentiation
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Melkman, Rachel; And Others – Child Development, 1976
The preference for color or form as bases for similarity judgments among preschoolers (ages 2-5) and its relationship to the differentiation of form and color concepts as indexed by discrimination, identification, and labeling were investigated. (SB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Concept Formation, Dimensional Preference, Preschool Education
Interrelationships Among Attentional Preferences, Cardinal-Ordinal Ability, and Conservation of Number
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Henry, Donald E. – Child Development, 1976
Cardinal-ordinal abilities and attentional preferences of kindergarten nonconservers, kindergarten conservers, and third grade conservers of number were compared by employing standarized versions of Piagetian cardinal-ordinal tasks and a triad preference task. (Author/JMB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Conservation (Concept), Dimensional Preference
Stability of First-Grade Children's Dimensional Preferences
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Offenbach, Stuart I.; And Others – Child Development, 1972
Results indicate that children's preferences were relatively stable over time. (Authors/MB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Color, Cues, Dimensional Preference
The Development of Infant Sensitivity to Biomechanical Motions.
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Bertenthal, Bennett I.; And Others – Child Development, 1985
Examines, in three experiments, infant sensitivity at 20, 30, and 36 weeks of age to 3-dimensional structure of a human form specified through biomechanical motions. Findings are interpreted as suggesting that infants, by 36 weeks of age, are extracting fundamental properties necessary for interpreting a point-light display as a person. (Author/BE)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Biomechanics, Cognitive Processes, Dimensional Preference
Individual Differences in Neonatal Preferences for Planometric and Stereometric Visual Patterns
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Jones-Molfese, Victoria J. – Child Development, 1972
This investigation also studied the relationship between gestational age and preferences for contour. (CB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Data Analysis, Dimensional Preference, Eye Fixations
Attention to Stimulus Dimensions in the Conservation of Liquid Quantity
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Miller, Patricia H. – Child Development, 1973
Results show that both kindergarten nonconservers and kindergarten conservers found height most salient. Third-grade conservers found quantity most salient but could easily attend to height and width. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Conservation (Concept), Data Analysis
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
Selective Strategies in Children's Attention to Task-Relevant Information
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Lehman, Elyse Brauch – Child Development, 1972
Results suggest that selective attention is a multifaceted skill, with development of its parts progressing at different rates. (Author)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Dimensional Preference, Elementary School Students