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Preference for Color and Form in Preschoolers as Related to Color and Form Differentiation
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Melkman, Rachel; And Others – Child Development, 1976
The preference for color or form as bases for similarity judgments among preschoolers (ages 2-5) and its relationship to the differentiation of form and color concepts as indexed by discrimination, identification, and labeling were investigated. (SB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Concept Formation, Dimensional Preference, Preschool Education
Development of Visual Pattern Classification in Preschool Children: Prototypes and Distinctive Features
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Williams, Tannis MacBeth; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1977
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, Perceptual Development, Preschool Children
The Development of Equivalence Rules for Visual Configurations
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Gindes, Marion; Barten, Sybil – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1977
This study compared the use of discrete and relational aspects of visual configurations in making similarity judgments. Subjects were 3-, 4-, 5-, and 8-year-old children and adults. (BD)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Dimensional Preference
A Developmental Study of the Category Effect in Visual Search.
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Stanovich, Keith E.; West, Richard F. – Child Development, 1978
Groups of eight- and ten-year-olds and adults visually searched for the presence of a target letter or number in fields of items that were either of the same or a different category (letter or number) than the target. (JMB)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Elementary School Students
Relations Among Symmetry, Asymmetry, Perceptual Comprehension of Numerals by Kindergarten and First Grade Children.
Cheong, George S. C. – 1977
The main purpose of this study was to investigate whether children's perceptual comprehension of symmetrical numerical displays was greater than their comprehension of asymmetrical numerical displays. Effects of sex, age and socioeconomic status were looked at. Seventy-three kindergarten and first grade children participated in the study.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Dimensional Preference, Elementary School Students, Number Concepts
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN AGE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING CAPACITY OF ADULTS. REPORT NUMBER 7.
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CARPENTER, WILLIAM L. – 1968
CHANGE IN INFORMATION PROCESSING AND CHANNEL CAPACITY WITH INCREASE IN AGE WAS STUDIED, AND POSSIBLE ALTERING OF THIS RELATIONSHIP WITH A CHANGE IN COMPLEXITY AND DIMENSIONALITY OF THE STIMULUS PRESENTED. VISUAL STIMULI WERE PROJECTED ON A SCREEN TO FOUR GROUPS COMPOSED OF 74 COLLEGE GRADUATES, RANGING IN AGE FROM 23 TO 68 YEARS, IN A SIMULATED…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Anxiety, College Graduates, Communications