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The Various Perceptions of Distance: An Alternative View of How Effort Affects Distance Judgments
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Woods, Adam J.; Philbeck, John W.; Danoff, Jerome V. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2009
D. R. Proffitt and colleagues (e. g., D. R. Proffitt, J. Stefanucci, T. Banton, & W. Epstein, 2003) have suggested that objects appear farther away if more effort is required to act upon them (e.g., by having to throw a ball). The authors attempted to replicate several findings supporting this view but found no effort-related effects in a variety…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Spatial Ability, Visual Perception, Dimensional Preference
The Drawbridge Phenomenon: Representational Reasoning or Perceptual Preference?
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Rivera, Susan M.; Wakeley, Ann; Langer, Jonas – Developmental Psychology, 1999
Two experiments investigated whether 5-month olds would look longer at rotating "drawbridge" appearing to violate physical laws because they knew it was causally impossible. Findings indicated that infants' longer gaze at 180-degree rotations was due to simple perceptual preference for more motion, challenging Baillargeon's (1987) claim…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Dimensional Preference, Habituation, Infant Behavior
Dimensional Salience and Speeded Sorting of Orientation by Kindergarten and Fourth-Grade Children.
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Lazzaro, Peter; Cook, Harold – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1986
Investigates effects of perceptual salience and specific orientation values on 16 kindergarten and fourth-grade children executing a speeded sorting task. Kindergarten results supported the cognitive processing prediction that orientation sorting times would vary as a function of condition, but no differences were obtained for the fourth-grade…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Dimensional Preference, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Importance of the Overall Similarity of Objects for Adults' and Children's Classifications.
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Smith, Linda B. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 1981
The hypothesis that overall-similarity relations structure both adults' and children's classifications of heterogeneous objects (objects that differ in a variety of ways) was supported in two experiments. When objects varied simultaneously on many dimensions, adults and children constructed classifications that maximized within-category similarity…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Dimensional Preference
Number Bias for the Discrimination of Large Visual Sets in Infancy
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Brannon, Elizabeth M.; Abbott, Sara; Lutz, Donna J. – Cognition, 2004
This brief report attempts to resolve the claim that infants preferentially attend to continuous variables over number [e.g. Psychol. Sci. 10 (1999) 408; Cognit. Psychol.44 (2002) 33] with the finding that when continuous variables are controlled, infants as young as 6-months of age discriminate large numerical values [e.g. Psychol. Sci. 14 (2003)…
Descriptors: Number Concepts, Numbers, Infants, Discrimination Learning
Attention to Stimulus Presentation Mode as a Function of Sex.
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Perelle, Ira B. – Journal of Psychology, 1979
In a study of attending behavior during the crossover period (12-13 years), when preferences shift from auditory to visual stimuli, females switched their preferences significantly earlier than did males. Besides biological factors, these sex differenes were attributed to differential conditioning of attitudes, reinforcement, and discrimination…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Auditory Stimuli, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Style