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Patterns of Hypothesis Testing in Children's Discriminative Learning: A Study of the Development of Problem-Solving Strategies.

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Kemler, 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

A Developmental Study of Attentional Strategies.

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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