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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 reviewedGoldstein, Sondra Blevins; Siegel, Alexander W. – Child Development, 1971
Study found that stimulus presence during a delay of reinforcement interval enhanced performance, and to a large extent prevented the usual delay-produced decrement. (Authors)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Discrimination Learning, Grade 3, Intervals
Peer reviewedRamey, Craig T.; Goulet, L. R. – Child Development, 1971
Male school children of three age levels were tested on a 2-choice visual discrimination task that varied in spatial continguity of stimulus, response, and reward. Separation of stimulus from response and reward was found to retard learning. (WY)
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Grade 2, Grade 4, Grade 6
Peer reviewedHarter, Susan; And Others – Child Development, 1971
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Discrimination Learning, Handicapped Children, Learning Theories
Peer reviewedGaines, Rosslyn – Child Development, 1970
The results show that selective attention to color or form can be experimentally changed and is not developmentally determined for all Ss. (WY)
Descriptors: Color, Discrimination Learning, Pictorial Stimuli, Preschool Children
Peer reviewedNovack, Thomas A.; Richman, Charles L. – Child Development, 1980
Tests the effects of stimulus variability on overgeneralization and overdiscrimination errors in children and adults. The subjects (n=64), adults and five-, seven-, and nine-year-old children, participated in a visual discrimination task. (CM)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, College Students, Discrimination Learning
Peer reviewedBowers, 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
Peer reviewedKatz, Nancy; And Others – Child Development, 1974
Descriptors: Comprehension, Discrimination Learning, Intellectual Development, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedField, Jeffrey – Child Development, 1976
Videotapes were made of the prehensile activity and looking behavior of 2- and 5-month-old infants in the presence of objects placed within and beyond possible contact distance. (BRT)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Discrimination Learning, Distance, Infant Behavior
Peer reviewedBerman, Phyllis W. – Child Development, 1971
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Data Analysis, Discrimination Learning, Motivation
Peer reviewedYonas, Albert; And Others – Child Development, 1979
After learning to discriminate tactually between a convexity and a concavity, 101 children aged three to eight years were presented a photograph of the convexity and the concavity. The relevance of egocentric, environmental, and lighting-specified frames of reference was manipulated by changing the position of the subject's head, rotating the…
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Early Childhood Education, Elementary School Students, Pictorial Stimuli
Peer reviewedCasasola, Marianella; Cohen, Leslie B.; Chiarello, Elizabeth – Child Development, 2003
Two experiments examined six-month-olds' ability to form an abstract containment category. Results indicated that, after habituation to object pairs in a containment relation, infants looked reliably longer at an example of an unfamiliar versus familiar containment relation, indicating that they could form a categorical representation of…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Discrimination Learning
Direct linkCasasola, Marianella – Child Development, 2005
Two experiments explored how infants learn to form an abstract categorical representation of support (i.e., on) when habituated to few (i.e., 2) or many (i.e., 6) examples of the relation. When habituated to 2 pairs of objects in a support relation, 14-month-olds, but not 10-month-olds, formed the abstract spatial category (i.e., generalized the…
Descriptors: Infants, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Classification, Habituation
Peer reviewedTyrrell, 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
Peer reviewedCorsini, David A.; Berg, Allan J. – Child Development, 1973
Examines the interrelationships of task performances and developmental changes of 4-, 6-, and 8-year-olds. Significant developmental changes were observed on transposition, cue interference, and spatial memory. The pattern of intercorrelations between tasks suggested a high degree of correspondence across tasks. (ST)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Discrimination Learning, Measurement
