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Kimball, Meredith M.; Dale, Philip S. – Child Development, 1972
Results of this study suggest that availability of a consistent set of color labels is related more closely to recognition accuracy than is the spontaneous production of labels in a color recognition task. (Authors)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Color, Data Analysis, Intelligence Differences
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Gulya, Michelle; Rossi-George, Alba; Hartshorn, Kristen; Vieira, Aurora; Rovee-Collier, Carolyn; Johnson, Marcia K.; Chalfonte, Barbara L. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2002
Three experiments with 164 individuals between 4 and 80 years old examined age-related changes in explicit memory for three perceptual features: item identity, color, and location. Findings indicated that performance on explicit memory tests was not a consistent inverted U-shaped function of age across various features, but depended on the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Age Differences, Children
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Jager, Stephan; Wilkening, Friedrich – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2001
Two experiments examined developmental changes in reasoning about intensive quantities--predicting mixture intensity of pairs of liquids with different intensities of red color. Results showed that cognitive averaging in this domain developed late and slowly. Predominating up to 12 years was an extensivity bias, a strong tendency to use rules that…
Descriptors: Addition, Adults, Age Differences, Bias