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Peer reviewedFerraro, Douglas P.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Age Differences, Bilingualism, Cognitive Processes, Discrimination Learning
Peer reviewedBrannigan, Gary G.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1974
Tests the hypothesis that strong approval motivation is developmentally lower than weaker approval motivation, since the high-approval-motivated individual is more dependent on the external world than on internal cues and norms. (Author/ED)
Descriptors: Developmental Psychology, Discrimination Learning, Elementary School Students, Motivation Techniques
Peer reviewedFein, Greta G. – Developmental Psychology, 1973
A four choice discrimination problem was used to examine imitative behavior in children matched in mental age but differing in chronological age. The finding that older children imitated less than younger children is discussed in terms of socialization. (DP)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Discrimination Learning, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewedOffenbach, Stuart I. – Developmental Psychology, 1974
This study tested Levine's hypothesis testing model of discrimination learning with a procedure for determining which hypothesis is sampled without introducing blank trials. (DP)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Behavioral Science Research, College Students
Peer reviewedSpear, Paul S.; Spear, Sara Allen – Developmental Psychology, 1972
Main effect of reinforcement for mean response latency indicated that subjects took longer to respond under disapproval than under approval or silence. (Authors)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Data Analysis, Discrimination Learning, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewedKemler, Deborah G. – Developmental Psychology, 1978
Three studies of elementary school children's problem-solving procedures in intentional discrimination tasks are reported. Subjects were children selected from kindergarten and grades 2, 3, and 6. (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Discrimination Learning, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedHarter, Susan – Developmental Psychology, 1975
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Cognitive Development, Discrimination Learning, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewedFaw, Terry T.; Wingard, Joseph A. – Developmental Psychology, 1977
The relation between conceptual development and visual exploratory behavior was investigated by engaging eighty-four 3-, 4-, and 8-year-old children in a picture-sorting task to determine whether they would spontaneously and readily discriminate between animate and inanimate objects. (Author/JMB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation
Peer reviewedFlanery, Randall C.; Balling, John D. – Developmental Psychology, 1979
First-, third-, and fifth-grade children and adults performed a tactile shape-discrimination task. Changes in the magnitude of differences between performance in the left and right perceptual fields were examined. Results suggested that the right hemisphere becomes progressively more specialized for tactile spatial ability with increasing age.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cerebral Dominance, College Students, Discrimination Learning
Peer reviewedBaumeister, Alfred A.; Maisto, Albert A. – Developmental Psychology, 1974
Presents a study of paired-associative learning involving a total of 80 preschool and second grade children. Four familiarization categories of pretraining were utilized; results are discussed in terms of the effects of pretraining conditions and age on paired-associative learning and their consistency with some developmental hypotheses and phase…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Discrimination Learning, Elementary School Students, Learning Processes
