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Win-Stay, Lose-Shift Problem Learning by Children: Effects of Age and Experience

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Berman, Phyllis W. – Developmental Psychology, 1973

The age effect in this study was such that younger children required proportionately more experience with reward than nonreward before they were able to improve their performance on reward problems over six sessions. (Author)

Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Data Analysis, Discrimination Learning

Perception of Racial Cues in Preschool Children: A New Look

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Katz, Phyllis A. – Developmental Psychology, 1973

The prediction was confirmed that young children would experience more difficulty in learning to discriminate faces of another race than those of their own. Additional findings revealed that discrimination-learning performance with racial stimuli is related to a number of factors including developmental level, race of the subject, and race of the…

Descriptors: Color, Cues, Data Analysis, Discrimination Learning

Cross-Modal and Intramodal Visual and Tactual Matching in Young Children

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Cronin, Virginia – Developmental Psychology, 1973

Study shows that there are differences in the information-processing capacities of touch and vision and that these differences are influenced by a variety of factors. (Author)

Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Kindergarten Children, Learning Modalities, Performance Factors

Learning and Problem Solving by the Mentally Retarded Under Three Testing Conditions

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Stevenson, Harold W.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1970

Descriptors: Adolescents, Discrimination Learning, Incidental Learning, Learning

Patterns of Hypothesis Testing in Children's Discriminative Learning: A Study of the Development of Problem-Solving Strategies.

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Kemler, Deborah G. – Developmental Psychology, 1978

Three studies of elementary school children's problem-solving procedures in intentional discrimination tasks are reported. Subjects were children selected from kindergarten and grades 2, 3, and 6. (Author/MP)

Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Discrimination Learning, Elementary Education