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Peer reviewedEsposito, Nicholas J. – Developmental Psychology, 1975
Experiment 1 examined the relationship between dimensional preference and proportion of optional reversal shifts among adults. Experiment 2 examined dimensional preference and shift behaviors using an intradimensional-extradimensional shift paradigm. The results indicate that adults show the same type of behavior previously throught to…
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Development, Dimensional Preference, Discrimination Learning
Peer reviewedGindes, 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
