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Treiman, Rebecca; Levin, Iris; Kessler, Brett – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2007
Letter names play an important role in early literacy. Previous studies of letter name learning have examined the Latin alphabet. The current study tested learners of Hebrew, comparing their patterns of performance and types of errors with those of English learners. We analyzed letter-naming data from 645 Israeli children who had not begun formal…
Descriptors: Orthographic Symbols, Second Language Learning, Semitic Languages, Emergent Literacy
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Sophian, Catherine; Yengo, Laurie – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1985
Results suggest that infants' errors in searching for a visible object reflect lapses of attention rather than systematic misunderstandings of objects or space and so are not incompatible with an information-processing account of early search. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Attention Control, Cognitive Ability, Error Patterns, Infant Behavior
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Presson, Clark C. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1980
A modified viewer rotation procedure was used to contrast two possible explanations of spatial egocentrism in spatial perspective tasks. Subjects were 60 children in first, third, and fifth grades. (MP)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Egocentrism, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
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Bialystok, Ellen – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1989
Three studies examined the hypotheses that: (1) codability and not extent of distance determines difficulty; (2) critical features and not whole objects are coded; and (3) implicit perceptual axes provide a frame of reference for coding the display. Results supporting these hypotheses are discussed in terms of a description of spatial…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Ability, Difficulty Level, Error Patterns