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Interproblem Learning in Ten-Month-Old Infants
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Fagen, Jeffrey W. – Child Development, 1977
This study used a learning-set task to assess the ability of four 10-month-old infants to acquire an object discrimination. (Author/JMB)
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Infants, Research
Memory Factors in Vowel Discrimination of Normal and At-Risk Infants
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Swoboda, Philip J.; And Others – Child Development, 1978
The role of memory factors in the vowel discrimination of normal and at-risk 8-week-old infants was examined by studying the categorical versus continuous discrimination of very brief vowels in a nonnutritive sucking paradigm. Discrimination of the silent delay interval between the last familiar and the first novel stimulus was also examined.…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Discrimination Learning, Infants, Memory
The Effect of Change in Stimuli on the Transfer of Dimensional Pretraining to the Discrimination Learning of Kindergarten Children.
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Cantor, Joan H.; Spiker, Charles C. – Child Development, 1978
Descriptors: Dimensional Preference, Discrimination Learning, Kindergarten Children, Research
Continuous Vowel Discrimination in Normal and At Risk Infants
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Swoboda, Philip J.; And Others – Child Development, 1976
This study investigated vowel discrimination in 8-week-old infants. Using a nonnutritive, high-amplitude sucking measure in a habituation-dishabituation paradigm. (Author/SB)
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Cognitive Development, Discrimination Learning, Infants
Bimodal Perception in Infancy: Response to Auditory-Visual Incongruity
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Lyons-Ruth, Karlen – Child Development, 1977
This study tested the assimilation of an auditory-visual stimulus configuration in 32 infants aged 15 to 16 weeks. The infants' discrimination of matched and mismatched auditory-visual stimuli indicated that infants by 4 months of age are capable of constructing bimodal schemata. (JMB)
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Cognitive Processes, Discrimination Learning, Infants
Serial Habituation in Two-, Three-, and Four-Month-Old Infants
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Miller, Dolores J.; And Others – Child Development, 1976
Serial habituation of visual fixations was investigated through a design permitting cross-sectional, within-subject longitudinal, cohort longitudinal, and time-lag analyses. Results suggested that for all ages habituation was under way to the parts of the stimulus in order of the realitive saliencies. No one methodology appeared to significantly…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Discrimination Learning, Habituation, Infants
Observing Behavior and Children's Discrimination Learning
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Goldstein, Sondra Blevins; Siegel, Alexander W. – Child Development, 1971
Study found that stimulus presence during a delay of reinforcement interval enhanced performance, and to a large extent prevented the usual delay-produced decrement. (Authors)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Discrimination Learning, Grade 3, Intervals
Rule Learning and Transfer in Oddity and Discrimination Problems
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Bowers, Nancy Parsley – Child Development, 1976
Cognitive organization in problem solving was investigated using a transfer paradigm. (SB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Discrimination Learning, Elementary School Students, Problem Solving
The Adjustment of Reaching Behavior to Object Distance in Early Infancy
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Field, Jeffrey – Child Development, 1976
Videotapes were made of the prehensile activity and looking behavior of 2- and 5-month-old infants in the presence of objects placed within and beyond possible contact distance. (BRT)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Discrimination Learning, Distance, Infant Behavior
Infants' Responses to Strangers: Midget, Adult, and Child
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Brooks, Jeanne; Lewis, Michael – Child Development, 1976
Facial configuration and height were systematically varied as four different strangers--a male and female child, a female adult and a small female adult (midget)--each approached 40 different infants. The infants responded as if there were 3 classes of persons, suggesting that both size and facial configuration cues were used. (Author/SB)
Descriptors: Body Height, Discrimination Learning, Fear, Females
The Discrimination of Foreign Speech Contrasts by Infants and Adults
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Trehub, Sandra E. – Child Development, 1976
Infants 5-17 weeks of age were presented with foreign sounds which were contingent upon their nonnutritive sucking. Significant differences were found for experimental versus control (no sound change) subjects. It was found that adults achieved perfect accuracy with English contrasts but readily confused the foreign contrasts. (Author/SB)
Descriptors: Adults, Auditory Stimuli, Contrastive Linguistics, Discrimination Learning
Effects of Type and Source of Labels on Children's Perceptual Judgments and Discrimination Learning
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Etaugh, Claire F.; Averill, Bonnie E. – Child Development, 1971
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Discrimination Learning, Labeling (of Persons), Learning Processes