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Download full textIngison, Lind J.; Levin, Joel R. – 1974
Two experiments investigated the role of children's spontaneous conceptual "biases" in pictorial discrimination learning. The results suggested that such biases may serve either to facilitate or to interfere with discrimination learning. Moreover, in each experiment, age by treatment interactions revealed that in comparison to the behavior of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Bias, Children, Cognitive Development
Peer reviewedTesch, Stephanie; And Others – Journal of Gerontology, 1978
Spatial egocentrism and its relationships to discrimination ability and communicative egocentrism were investigated in a sample of 80 adult males from a single institutional setting. Significant effects of order of task presentation indicated that the experimental procedure influenced performance on the spatial and communicative egocentrism and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Communication (Thought Transfer), Discrimination Learning
