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Cunningham, Joseph G.; Odom, Richard D. – Child Development, 1978
Children 6 and 11 years of age were given a recall task in which the perceptual salience of the information and the type of conceptual evaluation required for solution (analysis or synthesis) were varied. (Author/JMB)
Descriptors: Conceptual Schemes, Dimensional Preference, Elementary School Students, Problem Solving
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Tatarsky, Julian H. – Child Development, 1974
Presents an investigation of the hypothesis that an increase in the salience of the total class dimension should improve class-inclusion performance. Subjects were 220 children in kindergarten through third grades. (SDH)
Descriptors: Developmental Tasks, Dimensional Preference, Elementary School Students, Kindergarten 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
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Odom, Richard D.; Corbin, David W. – Child Development, 1973
Uni- and multidimensional processing of 6- to 9-year olds was studied using recall tasks in which an array of stimuli was reconstructed to match a model array. Results indicated that both age groups were able to solve multidimensional problems, but that solution rate was retarded by the unidimensional processing of highly salient dimensions.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Dimensional Preference, Elementary School Students, Information Processing