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Peer reviewedToppino, Thomas C.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1979
Two experiments investigated why perceptual pretraining facilitates children's performance on concept problems involving a nonpreferred relevant dimension and preferred irrelevant dimensions. (JMB)
Descriptors: Attention, Concept Formation, Dimensional Preference, Kindergarten Children
Odom, Richard D. – 1977
This paper examines the concept of decalage from two cognitive-change positions (structures of logical thought and attentional and verbal mediators) and proposes an alternative explanation for decalage from a perceptual-change point of view. The term decalage is used to summarize the relation between differences in performance of various age…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Children, Cognitive Development


