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Peer reviewedMelkman, Rachel; And Others – Child Development, 1976
The preference for color or form as bases for similarity judgments among preschoolers (ages 2-5) and its relationship to the differentiation of form and color concepts as indexed by discrimination, identification, and labeling were investigated. (SB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Concept Formation, Dimensional Preference, Preschool Education
Direct linkGellatly, Angus; Pilling, Michael; Cole, Geoff; Skarratt, Paul – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2006
Object substitution masking (OSM) is said to occur when a perceptual object is hypothesized that is mismatched by subsequent sensory evidence, leading to a new hypothesized object being substituted for the first. For example, when a brief target is accompanied by a longer lasting display of nonoverlapping mask elements, reporting of target…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Perceptual Development, Dimensional Preference, Visual Perception
