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Behavioral Inference in Young Children
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Halliday, M. S. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1977
Three experiments are reported on behavioral inference in children of 3 to 5 years of age. In each experiment the children learned two separate sequences of behavior which they were required to put together in the final test stage in order to obtain a reward. (MS)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Discrimination Learning, Memory, Preschool Children
The Effects of Attention-Directing Training on Recognition Memory Task Performance of Three-Year-Old Children
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Murray, Frank S.; Lee, Tommie Shelton – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1977
Results of a study of recognition memory showed that 3-year-old children were able to discriminate schematic faces, but were not able to use this knowledge unless given training in attaching labels to the stimuli to enable them to store the information for later use. (Author/JMB)
Descriptors: Attention, Discrimination Learning, Memory, Preschool Children
Sequential Contiguity and Short-Term Memory in Children's Discrimination Learning
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Croll, William L.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1970
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Memory, Preschool Children, Recall (Psychology)
Children's Discrimination of Oblique Lines.
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Williamson, Ann M.; McKenzie, B. E. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1979
Three experiments examined the effect of different kinds of background features on children's orientation discrimination. A fourth experiment tested the hypothesis that errors in discrimination of obliques can be attributed mainly to confusion over the left-right direction of tilt. Subjects were 160 five-year-old and 20 seven-year-old children.…
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Memory
The Facilitation of Selective Attention in Preschoolers.
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Woody-Ramsey, Janet; Miller, Patricia H. – Child Development, 1988
Studies the allocation of attention of 100 four- and five-year-olds on a selective attention task. Results suggest that preschoolers are capable of using selective strategies when the task is made meaningful by the inclusion of a familiar script that provides supportive cognitive context. (RJC)
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Learning Strategies, Memory, Metacognition
The Effects of Distraction and Added Perceptual Cues on the Delayed Reaction of Very Young Children
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Loughlin, Kathleen A.; Daehler, Marvin W. – Child Development, 1973
Descriptors: Cues, Discrimination Learning, Memory, Perception
Phoneme Perception in Two- and Three-Year-Old Children
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Locke, John L. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Cues, Discrimination Learning, Memory
Recognition Paired-Associate Learning in Preschool Children
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Brotsky, S. Joyce; Carlin, T. June – Journal of Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Error Patterns, Memory, Paired Associate Learning
Discrimination and Memory for Symmetry in Young Children.
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Bornstein, Marc H.; Stiles-Davis, Joan – Developmental Psychology, 1984
Three studies explore the development of discrimination and memory for symmetry in preschoolers four to six years of age. Issues addressed include the young child's ability to discriminate and reproduce symmetry, and the effects of pattern orientation and complexity on the young child's symmetry discrimination and reproduction. Results indicate…
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Discrimination Learning, Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten Children
Object Recognition and Attention to Object Components by Preschool Children and 4-Month-Old Infants.
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Haaf, Robert A. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2003
This study investigated attention to and recognition of components in compound stimuli among infants and preschoolers. Oddity tasks with preschoolers and familiarization/novelty-preference tasks with infants demonstrated successful discrimination among stimuli components on basis of edge property information. Matching tasks with preschoolers and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Attention Control, Discrimination Learning
The Effects of a Learning Program in Perceptual-Motor Activity Upon the Visual Perception of Shape. Final Report.
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Kannegieter, Ruthan Brinkerhoff – 1968
This study involved fifty-eight 3-year-olds. It sought to determine whether the preschoolers could learn to discriminate visually the critical elements of shape through a program of perceptual-motor training, transfer such knowledge to similar but different shapes, and then resist the process of forgetting the critical elements. The children were…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Discrimination Learning, Doctoral Dissertations