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Peer reviewedFisher, Celia B.; Braine, Lila G. – Child Development, 1981
Found that preschool children can form abstract concepts of left and right which are not bound to the specific training context: children were able to generalize to new figures and to new spatial locations. The nature of the preschool child's left-right judgments is discussed. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Discrimination Learning, Generalization, Preschool Children
Peer reviewedNelson, Charles A.; Dolgin, Kim G. – Child Development, 1985
Examined seven-month-old infants' perceptions of happy and fearful facial expressions. Infants could generalize discrimination of expressions across male and female faces if first familiarized with happy faces. Infants tended to look longer at fear faces than at happy faces. Preferential responding was not specific to any individual face.…
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Facial Expressions, Fear, Generalization
Peer reviewedNelson, Charles A.; And Others – Child Development, 1979
Three experiments investigated seven-month-old infants' ability to discriminate the facial expressions of happiness and fear. (CM)
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Emotional Response, Fear, Generalization
