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Peer reviewedSmiley, Sandra S. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1973
Investigated effects of dimensional dominance of stimuli and subject's ages in initial and shift learning of discrimination tasks. (DP)
Descriptors: College Students, Dimensional Preference, Discrimination Learning, Grade 3
Peer reviewedButler, Gordon S.; Rabinowitz, F. Michael – Child Development, 1981
Describes two experiments conducted to explain why retarded children of younger mental age appear to be more selective on discrimination tasks containing relevant redundant cues than do children of older mental age. Findings are consistent with the hypothesis that the latter group of children are overselective because they tend to solve…
Descriptors: Children, Dimensional Preference, Discrimination Learning, Learning Problems
Download full textFahrmeier, Edward D.; Medin, Douglas L. – 1975
In order to examine the nature of dimensional processing in children, 20 kindergarten and 20 third grade Chinese-American children were asked to make similarity judgments for unidimensional sets of stimuli differing in color (hue), size, and shape, respectively. Age differences were generally confined to the color set. The judgments of the older…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Chinese Americans, Cultural Differences, Dimensional Preference
