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Gindes, Marion; Barten, Sybil – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1977
This study compared the use of discrete and relational aspects of visual configurations in making similarity judgments. Subjects were 3-, 4-, 5-, and 8-year-old children and adults. (BD)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Dimensional Preference
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Abecassis, Maurissa; Sera, Maria D.; Yonas, Albert; Schwade, Jennifer – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2001
Investigated degree to which two shape dimensions were represented categorically by children and adults when learning object names. Found that adults accepted names more often to objects that fell within proposed shape boundaries than to objects that crossed boundaries. Children were just as likely to generalize names to novel objects that fell…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Bias, Children
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Markson, Lori; Thompson, Laura A. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1998
Two experiments explored the nature of perceptual development in 5- and 10-year olds and adults. The primary finding was that preassessed salience significantly influenced 5-year olds' ability to discriminate two objects, while salience did not affect 10-year olds' or adults' response times. Results showed that salience effects in perceptual…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Attention, Children
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Langdon, Henriette W.; Wiig, Elisabeth H.; Nielsen, Niels Peter – Bilingual Research Journal, 2005
This study compared the efficacy of measures of naming speed, verbal fluency and self-ratings for establishing language dominance in 25 bilingual English-Spanish adults with college degrees. Naming speed was measured by total naming times (in seconds) for five "Alzheimer's Quick Test" tasks (Wiig, Nielsen, Minthon & Warkentin, 2002)…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Hispanic Americans, Adults, Language Fluency