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Download full textGIBSON, ELEANOR J.; YONAS, ALBERT
A STUDY WAS CONDUCTED TO DETERMINE WHETHER PEOPLE CAN CHANGE THEIR PERCEPTUAL PROCESSING STRATEGIES TO INCLUDE TESTS FOR THE PRESENCE OF ONLY THOSE STIMULUS FEATURES NECESSARY FOR THE TASK AT HAND. LEARNING DURING PRACTICE AND THE EFFECT OF AGE ON THE ABILITY TO USE OPTIMAL STRATEGIES WERE INVESTIGATED. A DISJUNCTIVE REACTION TIME PROCEDURE WAS…
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Patterned Responses, Perceptual Motor Learning, Responses
PDF pending restorationKemmerer, Joseph T.; And Others – 1969
Sixteen kindergarten and 28 first-grade children were tested on two-choice discrimination problems. A prompt light indicated the positive (rewarded) object P on all training trials, and these were followed by a single nonprompted test trial during which a new object (X) replaced either P (X-N problems) or N (P-X problems) or neither (P-N control…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Discrimination Learning, Kindergarten, Responses
Peer reviewedTimko, Henry G. – Journal of Educational Research, 1977
A study of eighty Canadian kindergarten children showed that discrimination of similar letters was more difficult than distinctive letter discrimination, irrespective of training format or mode of testing. (MJB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Discrimination Learning, Early Childhood Education, Letters (Alphabet)
Peer reviewedSwoboda, Philip J.; And Others – Child Development, 1976
This study investigated vowel discrimination in 8-week-old infants. Using a nonnutritive, high-amplitude sucking measure in a habituation-dishabituation paradigm. (Author/SB)
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Cognitive Development, Discrimination Learning, Infants
Peer reviewedRogers, C. Jean; Johnson, Peder J. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1973
Purpose of the present experiment was to compare performance of four- and six-year-olds on a conjunctive concept task in which the two relevant values were either within a single dimension (unidimensional) or from two different dimensions (bidimensional). (Authors)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Discrimination Learning, Kindergarten Children
Peer reviewedWunderlich, Richard A.; Lozes, Jewell – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1973
Investigated was double responding as a technique which facilitates oddity discrimination under conditions of stimulus response discontiguity using three groups each with 12 educable mentally handicapped subjects (13.1 to 16.5 years). (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Discrimination Learning, Exceptional Child Research, Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedWilliams, Brian R. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1972
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Feedback, Grade 3, Psychological Studies
Peer reviewedMcGurk, Harry – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1972
Infants of 6 months and older can be said to have discriminated between different orientations of the same form. (Author)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Discrimination Learning, Eye Fixations, Infants
Peer reviewedHarrison, Albert A.; Crandall, Rick – Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1972
Descriptors: Attitudes, Discrimination Learning, Evaluation, Responses
Dickerson, Donald J. – Child Develop, 1970
Descriptors: Behavior Chaining, Discrimination Learning, Learning Theories, Primary Education
Dickerson, Donald J.; And Others – Develop Psychol, 1970
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Discrimination Learning, Kindergarten Children, Performance Factors
Caron, Albert J. – Develop Psychol, 1970
Descriptors: Age Differences, Analysis of Variance, Discrimination Learning, Preschool Children
Peer reviewedSteinman, Warren M. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1970
The results of three experiments involving 6 young children suggest that the generalized imitation effect may not be entirely due to the child's inability to discriminate reinforced fron nonreinforced occasions. Instructional and social variables may strongly influence the generalized imitation effect. (WY)
Descriptors: Conditioning, Discrimination Learning, Imitation, Individual Instruction
Mankonen, Larry J.; and others – Psychol Rep, 1969
Descriptors: Age, Discrimination Learning, Inhibition, Learning Theories
Peer reviewedO'leary, Susan G. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1974
Children's avoidance responses were conditioned and then extinguished in a laboratory analog of a social threat situation. (DP)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Discrimination Learning, Extinction (Psychology), Kindergarten
