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Effect of Dimensional Preference on Adult Shift Learning: Some Developmental Implications
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Esposito, Nicholas J. – Developmental Psychology, 1975
Experiment 1 examined the relationship between dimensional preference and proportion of optional reversal shifts among adults. Experiment 2 examined dimensional preference and shift behaviors using an intradimensional-extradimensional shift paradigm. The results indicate that adults show the same type of behavior previously throught to…
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Development, Dimensional Preference, Discrimination Learning
The Drawbridge Phenomenon: Representational Reasoning or Perceptual Preference?
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Rivera, Susan M.; Wakeley, Ann; Langer, Jonas – Developmental Psychology, 1999
Two experiments investigated whether 5-month olds would look longer at rotating "drawbridge" appearing to violate physical laws because they knew it was causally impossible. Findings indicated that infants' longer gaze at 180-degree rotations was due to simple perceptual preference for more motion, challenging Baillargeon's (1987) claim…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Dimensional Preference, Habituation, Infant Behavior
The Effect of Perceptual Salience on Reflective-Impulsive Performance Differences
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Hartley, Deborah Green – Developmental Psychology, 1976
A total of 174 first, second, and third graders were tested to examine the relation between perceptual salience and cognitive style. The results indicated that implusives made more errors than reflectives only on trials requiring the use of the least salient dimension and that these performance differences decreased with age. (JMB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Conceptual Tempo, Dimensional Preference
Individuals and Dimensions in Children's Judgment of Same and Different
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Fein, Greta G.; Eshleman, Suzann – Developmental Psychology, 1974
Uses the transposition paradigm to compare the influence of the adjectives "same" and "different" on the test choice of 5- and 9-year-old children. (Author/SDH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Dimensional Preference