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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
The Effects of Stimulus Redundancy on Transfer of Stimulus Pretraining
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Campione, Joseph C. – Child Development, 1971
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Perception, Preschool Children, Redundancy
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
Dimensional Effects in Cross-modal Transfer of Discrimination Learning in Children
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Tyrrell, Donald J. – Child Development, 1977
Analysis of 40 first-grade children's performance on two discrimination learning problems revealed that children do transfer dimensional information between the visual and tactual modalities. (Author/JMB)
Descriptors: Dimensional Preference, Discrimination Learning, Learning Modalities, Primary Education
Hemispheric Asymmetry in a Face Discrimination Task in Infants.
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de Schonen, Scania; Mathivet, Eric – Child Development, 1990
Confirms the existence of a right-hemisphere advantage in the process of discriminating between face stimuli. The advantage was weaker in females than in males. No hemispheric transfer of learning was observed. Subjects were 18 infants of 42 weeks who were presented with an operant conditioning situation in which they discriminated between their…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Discrimination Learning, Foreign Countries, Infant Behavior
When Labels Hurt but Novelty Helps: Children's Perseveration and Flexibility in a Card Sorting Task
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Yerys, Benjamin E.; Munakata, Yuko – Child Development, 2006
Children often perseverate, repeating prior behaviors when inappropriate. This work tested the roles of verbal labels and stimulus novelty in such perseveration. Three-year-old children sorted cards by one rule and were then instructed to switch to a second rule. In a basic condition, cards had familiar shapes and colors and both rules were stated…
Descriptors: Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Persistence, Visual Stimuli, Cognitive Processes
The Effects of Verbal and Visual Highlighting on Discrimination Learning By Preschoolers and Second Graders
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Yussen, Steven R. – Child Development, 1972
Results revealed that (1) relevant verbal experience facilitated learning only for preschoolers, (2) irrelevant verbal experience did not interfere with learning, and (3) visual highlighting exerted no significant effects. (Author/MB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Discrimination Learning, Grade 2, Learning Processes