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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
Dimensional Control of Hypothesis Sampling during Three-Choice Discrimination Learning
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Gholson, Barry; O'Connor, Joseph – Child Development, 1975
Groups of second grade and college students were presented with a series of three-alternative, four-dimensional discrimination problems that contained probes for the subject's hypothesis. Subjects received either complete feedback or partial feedback. In the latter condition, when subjects were told their response choice was incorrect the correct…
Descriptors: Dimensional Preference, Discrimination Learning, Feedback, Higher Education
Stimulus Preference, Reinforcer Effectiveness, and Relational Responding in Infants.
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Fagen, Jeffrey W. – Child Development, 1980
Four-month-old infants' stimulus preferences were assessed using an operant paradigm with mobile reinforcers of different colors (blue, green). (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Attention, Color, Dimensional Preference, Infant Behavior
Dimensional Salience and Judgments of Bigness by Three-Year-Old Children
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Bausano, Mary K.; Jeffrey, Wendell E. – Child Development, 1975
In an evaluation of the relation between dimensional salience and preschoolers' judgments of bigness, 3-year-old children were shown triads of rectangles and asked to select the "big" one. The biggest rectangle in each triad was neither the tallest nor the widest. (JMB)
Descriptors: Dimensional Preference, Perceptual Development, Preschool Education, Responses
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
Generality of Perceptual Biases in Inference and Concept Usage
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Scholnick, Ellin Kobsky – Child Development, 1971
Experiment examined the generality of dimensional and cue-location biases in inference and role of directness of information. (Author)
Descriptors: Bias, Concept Formation, Cues, Dimensional Preference
Intersensory Interaction in Newborns: Modification of Visual Preferences Following Exposure to Sound.
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Lewkowicz, David J.; Turkewitz, Gerald – Child Development, 1981
Investigates intersensory interaction between auditory and visual stimulation in newborn infants. Following auditory stimulation, newborns' visual preferences for light patches of different intensity were examined. Results indicate that newborns attend to quantitative variations in stimulation and that these variations reflect both the objective…
Descriptors: Arousal Patterns, Auditory Stimuli, Dimensional Preference, Infant Behavior
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
Free Classification in Preschool Children
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Denney, Nancy Wadsworth – Child Development, 1972
The most significant finding is that classification according to complete similarity not only occurs much earlier than reported by Inhelder and Piaget, but also does not follow the developmental course reported by Inhelder and Piaget. (Author)
Descriptors: Classification, Cluster Grouping, Cognitive Development, Developmental Psychology
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