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Young Children's Perception of "Real" and "Pretend" on Television.
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Skeen, Patsy; And Others – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1982
The degree of reality perception of cartoon and human-fantasy televised episodes was measured in four- and five-year-olds. Five-year-olds had a more mature reality perception than four-year-olds. Only five-year-olds had a more mature reality perception of cartoon than of human fantasy episodes. (Author/RD)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cartoons, Cognitive Development, Fantasy
Preschool Children's Discrimination of Age.
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Taylor, Ellen; And Others – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1982
Children's abilities to judge "who is older" without using size as a cue were studied. Five-year-olds were better able to discriminate age than four-year-olds but were not equal to adults. No significant sex differences were found. (Author/RD)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Chronological Age, Cognitive Development, Physical Characteristics
The Middleness Concept in Children
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Rohles, Frederick H., Jr. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Attempts to determine the age at which the concept of middleness," or intermediately positioned object, emerges and is functional. (MB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Developmental Changes in the Perception of Inverted Triangular Forms: Closure and Order Effects
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Landers, W. F.; And Others – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Learning Processes
Incidence of Rotations of Bender-Gestalt Figures in Three Age Groups of Normal Israeli School Children
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Weiss, A. A. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Development of Preschoolers' Social-Cognitive Play Behaviors.
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Pellegrini, Anthony D. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1982
To investigate the development of preschoolers' social-cognitive play behaviors, ten preschoolers (two, three and four years old) were observed in their classrooms on 15 occasions by a time-sampling schedule. Social-cognitive behavior coding (Parten and Smilansky) indicates that children's play became more social as they grew older. (Author/PN)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Development, Classroom Observation Techniques, Cognitive Development
Children's Visual Regard and Manual Activity in Retention of Information About Spatial Position
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Daehler, Marvin W. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavioral Science Research, Cognitive Development, Individual Differences
Attentional Deficits and Word Attributes Preferred by Learning Disabled Children in Grades 2, 4, and 6.
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Hynd, George W.; And Others – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1978
The study investigated the effects of attentional deficits on the relative preferences for associative, acoustic, and orthographic attributes in word recognition by 45 learning disabled children in grades 2, 4, and 6. (Author/PHR)
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Age Differences, Associative Learning, Attention