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Peer reviewedKoenigsberg, Riki Sharfman – Child Development, 1973
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Character Recognition, Discrimination Learning, Preschool Children
Peer reviewedBerman, Phyllis W. – Child Development, 1973
If learning is viewed in terms of the tendency to approach a stimulus that has been rewarded and to avoid a stimulus that has not been rewarded, then it must be concluded that the subjects in this study did not learn. (Author)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Discrimination Learning, Preschool Children, Responses
Peer reviewedNelson, Charles A.; And Others – Child Development, 1979
Three experiments investigated seven-month-old infants' ability to discriminate the facial expressions of happiness and fear. (CM)
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Emotional Response, Fear, Generalization
Peer reviewedMarlier, Luc; Schaal, Benoist; Soussignan, Robert – Child Development, 1998
Studied head-orientation response of breast-feeding neonates in paired-choice odor tests. Found that 2-day olds detected amniotic fluid and colostrum, treating them as similar sensorily and/or hedonically. Four-day olds exhibited a preference for breast milk. Three-day olds oriented longer toward the odor of their own amniotic fluid than alien…
Descriptors: Breastfeeding, Discrimination Learning, Infant Behavior, Infants
Peer reviewedMasters, John C.; And Others – Child Development, 1977
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Mastery Learning, Preschool Education, Rewards
Peer reviewedDaehler, Marvin W.; And Others – Child Development, 1976
This study examined the equivalence of objects and pictures of objects in transfer discrimination of 72 children (ages 24-45 months). (BRT)
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Infants, Perception, Preschool Children
Peer reviewedFitzgerald, Joseph M. – Child Development, 1977
This study assessed the predictive utility of a classification-based model versus a representational memory-based model to account for the effects of verbal training on the acquired equivalence and distinctiveness paradigms. (Author/JMB)
Descriptors: Classification, Discrimination Learning, Mediation Theory, Memory
Peer reviewedNelson, Charles A.; Salapatek, Philip – Child Development, 1986
When six-month-old infants are preexposed to one stimulus, they are later able to remember that stimulus and distinguish it from a previously unseen, novel stimulus; degree of experience with one stimulus and the magnitude of novelty effect positively covary. Neurological substrates of infants' memory skills are described. (RH)
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Infants, Memory, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension)
Peer reviewedZelniker, Tamar; Oppenheimer, Louis – Child Development, 1976
The effectiveness of different training and transfer test conditions in promoting perceptual learning in impulsive kindergarten children was investigated. The results provide guidelines for designing effective training methods for improving discrimination learning and problem solving in impulsive children. (Author/SB)
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten, Perceptual Development
Peer reviewedRollins, Howard; Castle, Kathryn – Child Development, 1973
These results provide a more precise attentional interpretation of both preference and pretraining effects. (Authors)
Descriptors: Attention, Cues, Dimensional Preference, Discrimination Learning
Peer reviewedDoan, Helen McK.; Cooper, Deborah L. – Child Development, 1971
Descriptors: Conditioning, Cues, Discrimination Learning, Kindergarten Children
Peer reviewedMendelson, Morton J.; Ferland, Mark B. – Child Development, 1982
Twenty-seven 4-month-old infants heard a repetitive auditory rhythm, then viewed silent film of puppet opening/closing its mouth, either in the familiar rhythm or a novel rhythm. Results showed infants exposed to the novel condition watched the film longer than infants shown the familiar condition, providing evidence for auditory-visual transfer…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Cognitive Processes, Discrimination Learning, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedFuller, Peter W.; And Others – Child Development, 1981
Determines whether an averaged evoked potential technique using a random-v-repetitive presentation mode could be used to study infant auditory discrimination. Results showed a main effect of presentation mode with shorter latency for random v repetitive. The shortest onset latency was for random stimulus at the fast rate. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Attention Span, Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Stimuli, Auditory Tests
Peer reviewedDavis, Sylvia M.; McCroskey, Robert L. – Child Development, 1980
Focuses on auditory fusion (defined in terms of a listerner's ability to distinguish paired acoustic events from single acoustic events) in 3- to 12-year-old children. The subjects listened to 270 pairs of tones controlled for frequency, intensity, and duration. (CM)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Tests, Children
Peer reviewedKendler, Howard H.; Guenther, Kim – Child Development, 1980
One hundred and sixty subjects from five age levels ranging from 3 to 20 years compared photographs of dogs (e.g., two different Great Danes or a Great Dane and a Doberman pinscher) and judged whether they were similar or different. (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Age Differences, Children
