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Developmental Change in the Acuity of the "Number Sense": The Approximate Number System in 3-, 4-, 5-, and 6-Year-Olds and Adults
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Halberda, Justin; Feigenson, Lisa – Developmental Psychology, 2008
Behavioral, neuropsychological, and brain imaging research points to a dedicated system for processing number that is shared across development and across species. This foundational Approximate Number System (ANS) operates over multiple modalities, forming representations of the number of objects, sounds, or events in a scene. This system is…
Descriptors: Number Systems, Neurology, Child Development, Children
Development of Ability to Discriminate Orientation: Learning to Use the Frame of Reference
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Berman, Phyllis W.; Cunningham, Joseph G. – Developmental Psychology, 1977
The effect of shape of frame on orientation discriminations was investigated for 56 preschool children. (JMB)
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Discrimination Learning, Preschool Children, Preschool Education
Response to Social Reinforcement Rates as a Function of Reinforcement History
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Hamilton, Marshall L. – Developmental Psychology, 1972
A child's history of reinforcement is regarded as setting a standard that determines what current rates of reinforcement will be deprivational or satiational for him. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Data Analysis, Discrimination Learning, Interaction Process Analysis
A Developmental Study of Hypothesis Testing and Cue Selection Strategies
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Offenbach, Stuart I. – Developmental Psychology, 1974
This study tested Levine's hypothesis testing model of discrimination learning with a procedure for determining which hypothesis is sampled without introducing blank trials. (DP)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Behavioral Science Research, College Students