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Peer reviewedFisher, Celia B.; Camenzuli, Cheryl A. – Developmental Psychology, 1987
The correspondence of left-right confusion in children to the bilateral symmetry in the nervous system was tested by presenting left-right and up-down discrimination-learning tasks to 80 preschoolers who viewed these stimuli from either an upright or 90-degree-rotated body position. The data contradict anatomical model predictions. (Author/BN)
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Environmental Influences, Hypothesis Testing
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
