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Mareschal, Denis; Powell, Daisy; Volein, Agnes – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2003
Examined 7- and 9-month-olds' ability to categorize cats and dogs as separate from one another. Found that both groups formed a cat category that included novel cats but excluded a dog and an eagle, and formed a dog category that included novel dogs and a novel cat but excluded an eagle. Results mirrored those of 3- to 4-month-olds with visual…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, Cognitive Development, Discrimination Learning
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Droit-Volet, Sylvie – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2003
Examined effects of a click signaling arrival of a visual stimulus to be timed on temporal discrimination in 3-, 5-, and 8-year-olds. Found that in all groups, the proportion of long responses increased with the stimulus duration, although the steepness of functions increased with age. Stimulus duration was judged longer with than without the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Attention Control, Children
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Haaf, Robert A. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2003
This study investigated attention to and recognition of components in compound stimuli among infants and preschoolers. Oddity tasks with preschoolers and familiarization/novelty-preference tasks with infants demonstrated successful discrimination among stimuli components on basis of edge property information. Matching tasks with preschoolers and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Attention Control, Discrimination Learning