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Download full textGIBSON, ELEANOR J. – 1966
BOTH COGNITIVELY-ORIENTED AND RESPONSE-ORIENTED THEORIES OF PERCEPTUAL LEARNING ARE DISCUSSED AND CONTRASTED WITH A STIMULUS-ORIENTED THEORY. PERCEPTUAL LEARNING IS DEFINED AS AN INCREASE IN SPECIFICITY OF DISCRIMINATION OF THE STIMULUS INPUT. THE AUTHOR DESCRIBED WHAT IS LEARNED IN PERCEPUTAL LEARNING AS () THE DISTINCTIVE FEATURES OF THINGS, (2)…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Discrimination Learning, Learning Experience, Learning Theories
Peer reviewedSchaffer, H. R.; Parry, M. H. – British Journal of Psychology, 1970
Descriptors: Discriminant Analysis, Discrimination Learning, Infant Behavior, Perceptual Development
Peer reviewedLawson, R. B.; Frey, W. F. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: Depth Perception, Discrimination Learning, Distance, Perceptual Development
Cassel, Thomas Z. K.; Sander, Louis W. – 1975
This research project was designed to determine whether 1-week-old neonates would indicate biological recognition of their mothers. Biological recognition is defined as the particular configuration of sensory, kinesthetic, and motor cues and the temporal patterning of these cues which characterizes infants' exchange processes with their…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Discrimination Learning, Infant Behavior, Infants
Carpenter, Genevieve C. – 1973
A report is presented which relates to a general hypothesis suggested by previous data on visual response to faces that in the first weeks of life infants develop expectations regarding the human face. Three predictions were made: (1) Silent human faces would elicit less direct regard than faces accompanied by voices; (2) A familiar face would…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Discrimination Learning, Females, Infant Behavior
Siegel, Alexander W.; Vance, Billie J. – 1969
Dimensional preference tasks in both visual and haptic modalities with three dimensional stimuli varying in form, size, color, or texture were presented to 64 children. There were 16 subjects at each of four grade levels: preschool, kindergarten, grade 1, and grade 3. On each trial, the subject was presented three stimuli and asked to tell the…
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Grade 1, Grade 3, Intermode Differences
Breger, Ilana – Percept Mot Skills, 1970
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Auditory Stimuli, Behavioral Science Research, College Students
Smothergill, D. W.; Cook, Harold – 1969
The author initially cites the associationistic position of Spiker and the perceptual learning position of E. Gibson and concludes that the existing data does not clearly support either hypothesis. He describes a new approach designed to test these explanations of the role of verbal pretraining on subsequent discrimination learning. It consists of…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Child Language, Conditioning, Discrimination Learning
Peer reviewedGoodglass, Harold – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Discrimination Learning, Information Processing, Learning Processes
Peer reviewedAbravanel, Eugene – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1970
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Discrimination Learning, Middle Class, Perceptual Development
Peer reviewedBecker, John T. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1970
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Error Patterns, Kindergarten Children, Learning Problems
Peer reviewedBartholomeus, Bonnie N.; Doehring, Donald G. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Behavior Patterns, Child Development, Discrimination Learning
McGurk, Harry – 1972
Infants in four age groups--three, six, nine and twelve months--were exposed to an experimental procedure designed to assess the extent to which such subjects were capable of discriminating between different orientations of the same form, and the extent to which they were capable of recognizing the identity between different orientations of the…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Psychology, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis
Kagan, Jerome; And Others – 1975
This is a partial report of a longitudinal investigation designed to assess the psychological effects of an experimentally conducted day care program on children during the first 30 months of life. The experimental subjects were Chinese and Caucasian children from working and middle class families who were cared for at a special group care center…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Attention, Child Development, Child Rearing
