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What Comes First? How Selective Attentional Processes Regulate the Activation of a Motor Routine in a Manual Search Task
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Riviere, James; Falaise, Aurelie – Developmental Psychology, 2011
An intriguing error has been observed in toddlers presented with a 3-location search task involving invisible displacements of an object, namely, the C-not-B task. In 3 experiments, the authors investigated the dynamics of the attentional focus process that is suspected to be involved in this task. In Experiment 1, 2.5-year-old children were…
Descriptors: Response Style (Tests), Disabilities, Toddlers, Toys
In Cinderella's Slippers? Story Comprehension from the Protagonist's Point of View.
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Rall, Jaime; Harris, Paul L. – Developmental Psychology, 2000
Examined preschool children's recall of deictic verbs of motion presented within stories either consistently or inconsistently with the protagonist's viewpoint. Found that 3- and 4-year-olds accurately recalled verbs of motion (come, go, bring, take) that were consistent with the protagonist's viewpoint but made substitution errors of…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Error Patterns, Listening Comprehension, Memory
Developmental Changes in Time Estimation: Comparing Childhood and Old Age.
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McCormack, Teresa; Brown, Gordon D. A.; Maylor, Elizabeth A.; Darby, Richard J.; Green, Dina – Developmental Psychology, 1999
Examined developmental changes in time estimation among 5- to 99-year olds. Found that older adults and young children performed at lower levels than young adults; identified qualitative differences in error patterns of older adults and children. Proposed model of temporal generalization and bisection assuming developmental changes in noisiness of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Comparative Analysis, Error Patterns
Quantitative Models for Children's Concept Learning from a Developmental Perspective
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Block, Karen K.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1973
Results showed that reversal shift was easier than extradimensional shift and that relative shift difficulty was unaffected by instructions, in contrast to findings with college-age subjects. (Authors)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Concept Formation, Data Analysis, Developmental Psychology