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Peer reviewedHaaf, Robert A.; And Others – Child Development, 1983
Attempts to determine whether the stimulus dimension to which infants respond is different in fixed-trial and infant-control methodologies. Infants 10 weeks of age were shown four facelike patterns differing along two dimensions: number of elements and extent to which elements were organized to resemble the human face. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Dimensional Preference, Infant Behavior, Infants, Research Methodology
Peer reviewedFagen, 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
Peer reviewedBausano, 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
Peer reviewedCornell, Edward H. – Child Development, 1975
An investigation of 4-month-old children's attention responses to pattern dimensions and orientations by comparing the duration of an infant's fixation to changes in the orientation and structural arrangement of a previously exposed pattern. (ED)
Descriptors: Attention, Dimensional Preference, Infant Behavior, Pattern Recognition
Peer reviewedSlater, Alan; Sykes, Margaret – Child Development, 1977
A series of experiments is described whose aim was to define certain of the effective dimensions of stimulation in the newborn's visual environment. (Author/JMB)
Descriptors: Dimensional Preference, Infant Behavior, Neonates, Visual Environment
Peer reviewedWagner, Sheldon; And Others – Child Development, 1981
Eight sets of paired auditory and visual stimuli were constructed. Each member of the auditory pair was matched by one member of the visual pair (e.g., ascending "tone/up arrow"; descending "tone/down arrow"). Sixty-one infants with a mean age of 11.4 months were presented matching and unmatching stimuli; total fixation time…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Auditory Stimuli, Dimensional Preference, Infants
Peer reviewedWalker-Andrews, Arlene S.; Lennon, Elizabeth M. – Child Development, 1985
Examines, in two experiments, 5-month-old infants' sensitivity to auditory-visual specification of distance and direction of movement. One experiment presented two films with soundtracks in either a match or mismatch condition; the second showed the two films side-by-side with a single soundtrack appropriate to one. Infants demonstrated visual…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Auditory Stimuli, Dimensional Preference, Distance
Peer reviewedJacobson, Sandra W.; And Others – Child Development, 1985
Measures of prenatal exposure in 123 infants to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), cord serum PCB level, and maternal report of contaminated fish consumption predicted less preference for a novel stimulus on Fagan's test of visual recognition memory (VRM) at 7 months. Preference for novelty decreased in a dose-dependent fashion and postnatal…
Descriptors: Dimensional Preference, Infants, Memory, Neonates
Peer reviewedMedin, Douglas L. – Child Development, 1973
Study further examined the effects of forced-choice trials on dimensional preferences. (Author)
Descriptors: Dimensional Preference, Forced Choice Technique, Kindergarten Children, Measurement
Peer reviewedMcGurk, Harry – Child Development, 1972
Results indicate that for children in this study's age range orientation is a less salient discriminative cue than either size or color. (Author/MB)
Descriptors: Dimensional Preference, Discrimination Learning, Orientation, Preschool Children
Peer reviewedLewkowicz, 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
Peer reviewedBrown, Ann L.; Campione, Joseph C. – Child Development, 1971
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Color, Cues, Data Analysis
Peer reviewedBertenthal, Bennett I.; And Others – Child Development, 1985
Examines, in three experiments, infant sensitivity at 20, 30, and 36 weeks of age to 3-dimensional structure of a human form specified through biomechanical motions. Findings are interpreted as suggesting that infants, by 36 weeks of age, are extracting fundamental properties necessary for interpreting a point-light display as a person. (Author/BE)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Biomechanics, Cognitive Processes, Dimensional Preference
Peer reviewedJones-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
Peer reviewedFantz, Robert L.; Miranda, Simon B. – Child Development, 1973
Descriptors: Attention, Cognitive Development, Dimensional Preference, Downs Syndrome
