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Peer reviewedChipman, Susan F.; Mendelson, Morton J. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1975
Elementary school students and adults were presented with a paired comparison task of visual complexity in which contour and presence or absence of structure in the patterns were manipulated. Results indicated that complexity judgments of all subjects were affected by the presence of structure at lower levels of contour. (GO)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Difficulty Level, Elementary Education
PDF pending restorationChipman, Susan F.; And Others – 1977
Described are three experiments which probed children's sensitivity to structure or organization in visual patterns. Each experiment employed a different paradigm (complexity judgment, discrimination learning, recognition learning, and memory) in order to tap different aspects of children's use of structural information. Subjects were children in…
Descriptors: Age Differences, College Students, Discrimination Learning, Elementary Education
