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Rogers, C. Jean; Johnson, Peder J. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1973
Purpose of the present experiment was to compare performance of four- and six-year-olds on a conjunctive concept task in which the two relevant values were either within a single dimension (unidimensional) or from two different dimensions (bidimensional). (Authors)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Discrimination Learning, Kindergarten Children
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Berman, Phyllis W. – Developmental Psychology, 1973
The age effect in this study was such that younger children required proportionately more experience with reward than nonreward before they were able to improve their performance on reward problems over six sessions. (Author)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Data Analysis, Discrimination Learning
Ahammer, Inge M.; Goulet, L. R. – Child Develop, 1969
Based on an MA thesis (Ahammer) submitted to West Virginia University.
Descriptors: Age Differences, Concept Formation, Discrimination Learning, Reinforcement
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Corsini, David A.; Berg, Allan J. – Child Development, 1973
Examines the interrelationships of task performances and developmental changes of 4-, 6-, and 8-year-olds. Significant developmental changes were observed on transposition, cue interference, and spatial memory. The pattern of intercorrelations between tasks suggested a high degree of correspondence across tasks. (ST)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Discrimination Learning, Measurement
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Deichmann, John W.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Age Differences, Discrimination Learning, Elementary School Students, Incidental Learning
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Scott, Marcia S. – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1973
Experiment designed to collect further data related to the type of solution applied to the learning of a multiple-problem (ten) oddity discrimination. (Author)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Discrimination Learning
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Etaugh, Claire F.; Pope, Barbara K. – Child Development, 1974
Descriptors: Age Differences, Difficulty Level, Discrimination Learning, Elementary School Students
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Fein, Greta – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1972
Studies based on an analysis of one species of learning and transfer task, the transposition problem, in terms of two ways in which the experimenter's and the child's definition may differ. (Author)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Discrimination Learning, Grade 3
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Kemler, Deborah G. – Developmental Psychology, 1978
Three studies of elementary school children's problem-solving procedures in intentional discrimination tasks are reported. Subjects were children selected from kindergarten and grades 2, 3, and 6. (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Discrimination Learning, Elementary Education
Siegel, Alexander W.; Van Cara, Flo – 1970
One hundred and eight kindergarten and elementary school children, 36 at each of three age levels (5, 7, and 9 years) participated in the experiment. All children were presented a three-part successive discrimination task; original learning, presentation of incidental stimuli, and a test of recongition and recall of the incidental material.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Discrimination Learning, Elementary School Students, Incidental Learning
Williams, Joanna P. – 1974
In the first experiment, the development of the ability to copy alphabet letters by black males aged 3-9 (middle and low S.E.S.) was studied, using a newly-developed scoring system. In the second experiment, kindergarteners learned to associate letter names with six lower-case printed letters by the anticipation method. The addition of an…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Discrimination Learning, Kindergarten Children, Kinesthetic Methods