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Download full textHall, James W. – 1977
This study examined children's use of category information as a discrimination cue to avoid intrusions in recall and false alarms in recognition of items outside given categories. Forty-eight children in grades 1 and 4 were administered one of three conditions of a recognition task in which all study words were members of one of two familiar…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Processes, Cues, Discrimination Learning
Smith, Linda B.; Kemler, Deborah G. – 1977
This study investigated the effects of two stimulus manipulations (spatial distinctness and number of dimensions) on the performance of 24 kindergartners and 24 fifth graders in (1) tasks requiring distributed attention and (2) tasks requiring selective attention. Results suggest that kindergartners attempt to use one processing mode (distributed…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Classification, Cognitive Style
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
