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Peer reviewedThompson, G. Brian – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1975
Conducted two experiments which employed discrimination learning methods to test predictions related to the difficulty of discrimination of lateral reversals and of inversions when shapes are presented: (1) successively, (2) simultaneously in lateral alignment, and (3) simultaneously in vertical alignment. Subjects were 6-year-old children. (SDH)
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Foreign Countries, Hypothesis Testing, Perceptual Development
Download full textGIBSON, JAMES J.; YONAS, PATRICIA M. – 1967
INFANT SCRIBBLING ACTIVITY IS NOT SIMPLY PLAY. IT CONTRIBUTES TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF VISUAL ATTENTION AND PERCEPTION. YET, SCRIBBLING, UNLIKE WRITING IN THE COMMUNICATION SENSE, IS NOT MOTIVATED BY THE DESIRE TO INFORM, NOR TO SET DOWN THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS. THE EXPERIMENTAL HYPOTHESIS OF THIS STUDY WAS THAT THE MOTIVATIONS FOR SCRIBBLING ARE (1)…
Descriptors: Arousal Patterns, Cognitive Processes, Graphic Arts, Hypothesis Testing
