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Hiris, Eric; Krebeck, Aurore; Edmonds, Jennifer; Stout, Alexandra – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2005
In separate studies, observers viewed upright biological motion, inverted biological motion, or arbitrary motion created from systematically randomizing the positions of point-light dots. Results showed that observers (a) could learn to detect the presence of arbitrary motion, (b) could not learn to discriminate the coherence of arbitrary motion,…
Descriptors: Experimental Psychology, Kinesthetic Perception, Cognitive Processes, Biomechanics
Richman, Shanna – 1976
This study was designed to investigate the effects of modeling or training with and without rule provision on the employment of strategies in solving four-dimensional, discrimination-learning problems. Subjects were 144 second and sixth-grade children from the New York City Public Schools. The blank-trial hypothesis testing paradigm was used. The…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Discrimination Learning, Educational Research
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Serbin, Lisa A.; Connor, Jane M. – 1979
Sex typing among preschool children was investigated by means of a complete experimental design to test which factors maintain sex-typed behaviors, to test whether sex-typed behaviors are learned, and to reduce sex typing. The complete experimental design, it is maintained, allows investigators to focus on the consequences of sex typing rather…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Cognitive Processes, Discrimination Learning, Modeling (Psychology)