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The Effects of Reward and Punishment Upon Children's Attention, motivation, and Discrimination Learning
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Witte, Kenneth L.; Grossman, Eugene E. – Child Development, 1971
Descriptors: Attention, Discrimination Learning, Kindergarten Children, Motivation
Dimensional Preference, Pretraining, and Attention in Children's Concept Identification
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Rollins, Howard; Castle, Kathryn – Child Development, 1973
These results provide a more precise attentional interpretation of both preference and pretraining effects. (Authors)
Descriptors: Attention, Cues, Dimensional Preference, Discrimination Learning
Attention and Memory for Faces and Actions in Infancy: The Salience of Actions over Faces in Dynamic Events.
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Bahrick, Lorraine E.; Gogate, Lakshmi J.; Ruiz, Ivonne – Child Development, 2002
Three experiments investigated discrimination and memory of 5.5-month-olds for videotapes of women performing different activities (blowing bubbles, brushing hair, brushing teeth) or static displays after a 1-minute and a 7-week delay. Findings demonstrate the attentional salience of actions over faces in dynamic events to 5.5-month-olds. Findings…
Descriptors: Attention, Comparative Analysis, Discrimination Learning, Infant Behavior
Infants' Perception of the Audible, Visible, and Bimodal Attributes of Multimodal Syllables.
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Lewkowicz, David J. – Child Development, 2000
Three experiments investigated 4-, 6-, and 8-month-olds' perception of the audible, visible, and combined attributes of bimodally specified syllables. Results suggested that at 4 months, infants attended primarily to the featural information, at 6 months primarily to the asynchrony, and at 8 months to both features independently. (Author/KB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception