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Peer reviewedFagan, Joseph F., III – Child Development, 1974
Recognition memory, defined by novelty preferences, was found to vary over 4 discrimination tasks as a function of length of familiarization for 5-6-month-old infants. (ST)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Discrimination Learning, Infants, Memory
Peer reviewedSmith, Roger A.; Filler, John W., Jr. – Child Development, 1975
This study is an initial investigation of the effects of a fading procedure upon acquisition and transfer of discrimination learning with children younger than 36 months of age. (CS)
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Infants, Preschool Children, Visual Perception
Peer reviewedWormith, S. J.; And Others – Child Development, 1975
Investigated the possibility that evidence of frequency discrimination might be found when the experimental procedures involved the conjugate reinforcement of nonnutritive sucking. (SDH)
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Cognitive Development, Discrimination Learning, Infant Behavior
Peer reviewedSwoboda, 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
Peer reviewedVincent-Smith, Lisbeth; And Others – Child Development, 1974
The acquisition of language-receptive processes in preschool children was studied using a word association task. (ST)
Descriptors: Comprehension, Discrimination Learning, Language Acquisition, Preschool Children
Peer reviewedMasters, John C.; Mokros, Janice R. – Child Development, 1973
It was concluded from the date that satiation plays a determining role in the continued utilization of an acquired response while distraction is a primary determinant of acquisition rate. (Authors)
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Motivation, Preschool Children, Reinforcement
Peer reviewedMcCullers, John C.; Martin, Judith A. Gardner – Child Development, 1971
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Feedback, Grade 4, Motivation
Peer reviewedWitte, Kenneth L.; Grossman, Eugene E. – Child Development, 1971
Descriptors: Attention, Discrimination Learning, Kindergarten Children, Motivation
Peer reviewedFisher, Celia B.; Braine, Lila G. – Child Development, 1981
Found that preschool children can form abstract concepts of left and right which are not bound to the specific training context: children were able to generalize to new figures and to new spatial locations. The nature of the preschool child's left-right judgments is discussed. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Discrimination Learning, Generalization, Preschool Children
Peer reviewedFagan, Joseph F. III – Child Development, 1976
A series of five experiments explore the 7-month-old infant's ability to discriminate among photos of faces. The infant's tendency to choose visual targets for inspection provides evidence of discrimination and recognition. (Author/JH)
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Infant Behavior, Infants, Pattern Recognition
Peer reviewedGholson, 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
Peer reviewedAllen, Terry W. – Child Development, 1975
Compared the ability of poor and good readers in the second grade to make same-different matches of visual, auditory, and visual-auditory stimuli. (JMB)
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Discrimination Learning, Primary Education, Reading Achievement
Peer reviewedLyczak, Richard; Tighe, Thomas – Child Development, 1975
Presents four studies of concept identification behavior in first graders and kindergarten children under the blocking paradigm as implemented within a multidimensional discrimination task. While blocking was observed in children's learning, the data indicate the need for more sensitive and individualized measures of stimulus control in future…
Descriptors: Cues, Discrimination Learning, Learning Processes, Primary Education
Peer reviewedCantor, Joan H.; Spiker, Charles C. – Child Development, 1978
Descriptors: Dimensional Preference, Discrimination Learning, Kindergarten Children, Research
Peer reviewedNelson, Charles A.; Dolgin, Kim G. – Child Development, 1985
Examined seven-month-old infants' perceptions of happy and fearful facial expressions. Infants could generalize discrimination of expressions across male and female faces if first familiarized with happy faces. Infants tended to look longer at fear faces than at happy faces. Preferential responding was not specific to any individual face.…
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Facial Expressions, Fear, Generalization
