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Direct linkGellatly, Angus; Pilling, Michael; Cole, Geoff; Skarratt, Paul – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2006
Object substitution masking (OSM) is said to occur when a perceptual object is hypothesized that is mismatched by subsequent sensory evidence, leading to a new hypothesized object being substituted for the first. For example, when a brief target is accompanied by a longer lasting display of nonoverlapping mask elements, reporting of target…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Perceptual Development, Dimensional Preference, Visual Perception
Peer reviewedSchmidt, Constance R.; Shatz, Marilyn – Developmental Psychology, 1986
Examines how children's responses to questions about object terms varied across objects and the degree to which children specified common and conventional values for different object dimensions. (HOD)
Descriptors: Adults, Communication Research, Communication Skills, Concept Formation
Peer reviewedRabinowitz, F. Michael; Howe, Mark L. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1994
Children's use of the middle concept was assessed in two developmental studies. Experiment 1, with kindergarten through fifth-grade students, showed marked improvement in the mastery of the middle concept across elementary grades. In Experiment 2, discrimination pretraining with two nonoverlapping stimulus sets transferred to the novel test…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Concept Formation, Dimensional Preference, Elementary Education
