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Peer reviewedGreenberg, David J.; Blue, Sima Z. – Child Development, 1975
To examine the relationship between visual attention in infancy and the stimulus variables of contour and numerosity, 2- and 4-month-olds were placed in three experimental conditions. The results showed that contour and numerosity, acting in tandem, are responsible for the age-complexity shift observed by previous investigators of infant…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Dimensional Preference, Infants
Peer reviewedFagen, Jeffrey W. – Child Development, 1980
Four-month-old infants' stimulus preferences were assessed using an operant paradigm with mobile reinforcers of different colors (blue, green). (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Attention, Color, Dimensional Preference, Infant Behavior
Peer reviewedOffenbach, Stuart I.; And Others – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1973
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Cues, Dimensional Preference
Download full textHale, Gordon A.; Lipps, Leann E. T. – 1973
As children grow older they show an increasing preference for classifying objects on the basis of shape rather than color. To clarify the nature of this "dimension preference," children of ages 3 1/2 to 6 1/2 years were given a method of triads test of dimension preferences, followed (after a week's delay) by a component selection task. The most…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Children, Classification
Peer reviewedMiller, Patricia H. – Child Development, 1973
Results show that both kindergarten nonconservers and kindergarten conservers found height most salient. Third-grade conservers found quantity most salient but could easily attend to height and width. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Conservation (Concept), Data Analysis
