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Peer reviewedSmith, Linda B. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 1981
The hypothesis that overall-similarity relations structure both adults' and children's classifications of heterogeneous objects (objects that differ in a variety of ways) was supported in two experiments. When objects varied simultaneously on many dimensions, adults and children constructed classifications that maximized within-category similarity…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Dimensional Preference
Peer reviewedSmith, Linda B.; Kemler, Deborah G. – Cognitive Psychology, 1978
The contrast between holistic and differentiated perception of multidimensional stimuli is reconceptualized. Hypotheses about the experiential status of dimensions within holistic perception were tested as explanations of children's general perceptual mode and of adults' integral mode. Three levels of dimensional status are described. (Author/RD)
Descriptors: Dimensional Preference, Higher Education, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Perception
Peer reviewedMiller, Leon K. – Developmental Psychology, 1978
Investigates age differences in selective attention in a coded visual search task where subjects were given different types of information about target location before trial onset. (Author/SS)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention Control, Cognitive Processes, College Students
