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Walsh, John F.; D'Angelo, Rita – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Disadvantaged, Discrimination Learning
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Becker, John T. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1970
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Error Patterns, Kindergarten Children, Learning Problems
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Nettelbeck, T.; Lally, M. – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1979
Ten young males (aged 16-to-22 years) whose IQ scores ranged from 51 to 77 were compared on a simple discrimination task with ten male university students (aged 18-to-23 years) and 28 nonretarded male children (aged 7-to-11 years) in order to determine if reaction time is a consequence of mental retardation.
Descriptors: College Students, Discrimination Learning, Elementary School Students, Intelligence
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Wilson, Lonny R. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Handicapped Children, Learning Processes, Learning Theories
Soraci, S. A., Jr.; And Others – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1990
Children with mental retardation are particularly prone to failure on relational tasks such as oddity and match-to-sample, suggesting a differential sensitivity to relational information. This paper reports on several studies in which characteristics of stimulus arrays were enhanced. Results demonstrated the theoretical and practical significance…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Discrimination Learning
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Cronin, Virginia – Journal of the Association for the Study of Perception, 1982
Reports the results of two experiments dealing with children's visual and tactual performance. In the first task, after several presentations of a series, the tactual group made almost errorless discriminations. But with memory demands, tactual performance became poorer than visual performance. Found a large developmental difference. (JAC)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Cognitive Processes, Discrimination Learning