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Peer reviewedFagen, Jeffrey W.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1976
The ability of 3-month-old infants to discriminate novel components of a pre-familiarized stimulus was assessed using an operant paradigm. Subjects were 20 infants; adult judgments were taken from 15 college students. (Author/JH)
Descriptors: College Students, Infants, Perceptual Development, Research
Peer reviewedWilliams, Tannis MacBeth; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1977
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, Perceptual Development, Preschool Children
Peer reviewedBrooks, Jeanne; Lewis, Michael – Child Development, 1976
Facial configuration and height were systematically varied as four different strangers--a male and female child, a female adult and a small female adult (midget)--each approached 40 different infants. The infants responded as if there were 3 classes of persons, suggesting that both size and facial configuration cues were used. (Author/SB)
Descriptors: Body Height, Discrimination Learning, Fear, Females
Cheong, George S. C. – 1977
The main purpose of this study was to investigate whether children's perceptual comprehension of symmetrical numerical displays was greater than their comprehension of asymmetrical numerical displays. Effects of sex, age and socioeconomic status were looked at. Seventy-three kindergarten and first grade children participated in the study.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Dimensional Preference, Elementary School Students, Number Concepts
Download full textHorowitz, Frances D. – 1973
This monograph is a collection of papers describing a series of loosely related studies of visual attention, auditory stimulation, and language discrimination in young infants. Titles include: (1) Infant Attention and Discrimination: Methodological and Substantive Issues; (2) The Addition of Auditory Stimulation (Music) and an Interspersed…
Descriptors: Attention, Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception, Auditory Stimuli
