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Buss, Judith Liane; Rabinowtiz, F. Michael – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1973
Findings were: it did not matter whether the seriation involved the hues used in subsequent tasks or other hues; the presence or absence of reinforcement during perceptual pretraining did not affect pretraining, training, or transposition behavior; and seriation pretraining produced increased transposition in the intermediate-hue problem.…
Descriptors: Color, Dimensional Preference, Discrimination Learning, Primary Education
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Yerys, Benjamin E.; Munakata, Yuko – Child Development, 2006
Children often perseverate, repeating prior behaviors when inappropriate. This work tested the roles of verbal labels and stimulus novelty in such perseveration. Three-year-old children sorted cards by one rule and were then instructed to switch to a second rule. In a basic condition, cards had familiar shapes and colors and both rules were stated…
Descriptors: Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Persistence, Visual Stimuli, Cognitive Processes
Smith, Jerome; Tunick, Jeffrey – J Exp Child Psychol, 1969
Study supported by grants from the University of Connecticut Research Foundation and from the U.S. Office of Education.
Descriptors: Cues, Discrimination Learning, Handicapped Children, Kinesthetic Perception
SMUCKLER, NANCY SIDON – 1967
TO STUDY WHICH OF SEVERAL CONDITIONS PROMOTES EFFICIENT CONCEPT LEARNING, AN EXPERIMENT INVOLVING 2 CONDITIONS, METHOD OF PRESENTATION OF STIMULI AND RATIO OF POSITIVE TO NEGATIVE STIMULI, WAS ADMINISTERED TO 80 SECOND-GRADE CHILDREN. THE CHILDREN WERE DIVIDED INTO 8 TREATMENT GROUPS. THESE 8 GROUPS WERE FORMED BY VARYING THE 2 METHODS OF…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Concept Formation, Concept Teaching, Discrimination Learning