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Peer reviewedDeLoache, Judy S. – Child Development, 1976
This study investigated 17-week-old infants' response to discrepancy in visual patterns as a function of rate of habituation. (BRT)
Descriptors: Infants, Memory, Research, Responses
Peer reviewedGindes, 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
Peer reviewedFernandez, Barbara Quigley; Richman, Charles L. – Journal of Psychology, 1979
Preschoolers learned colors more rapidly than sizes and forms when cup stimuli were used. They learned sizes and forms more rapidly than colors when face stimuli were used. (RL)
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Perception, Preschool Children, Preschool Education
Download full textWoodruff, Diana S.; Gerrity, Kathleen M. – 1977
This study examined behavioral correlates of the rapid central nervous system changes occurring in the first 4 months of life. It was hypothesized that during the early months of infancy, visual preference would occur as a function of quantitative dimensions of the stimuli (size) which could be mediated at a subcortical level. It was further…
Descriptors: Dimensional Preference, Eye Fixations, Infant Behavior, Infants
Cheong, George S. C. – 1977
The main purpose of this study was to investigate whether children's perceptual comprehension of symmetrical numerical displays was greater than their comprehension of asymmetrical numerical displays. Effects of sex, age and socioeconomic status were looked at. Seventy-three kindergarten and first grade children participated in the study.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Dimensional Preference, Elementary School Students, Number Concepts
Rebelsky, Freda – 1969
This study investigated the response behavior of nine infants, aged 13-15 weeks, to a recurrent pattern of visual and verbal stimuli presented by their own mothers and by female strangers. The infants were presented with the following 2-minute sequence (repeated 3 times): (1) one-half minute of an unknown female leaning over the crib with a…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Behavior Patterns, Comparative Analysis, Infant Behavior
CARPENTER, WILLIAM L. – 1968
CHANGE IN INFORMATION PROCESSING AND CHANNEL CAPACITY WITH INCREASE IN AGE WAS STUDIED, AND POSSIBLE ALTERING OF THIS RELATIONSHIP WITH A CHANGE IN COMPLEXITY AND DIMENSIONALITY OF THE STIMULUS PRESENTED. VISUAL STIMULI WERE PROJECTED ON A SCREEN TO FOUR GROUPS COMPOSED OF 74 COLLEGE GRADUATES, RANGING IN AGE FROM 23 TO 68 YEARS, IN A SIMULATED…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Anxiety, College Graduates, Communications
Horowitz, Frances D. – 1973
This monograph is a collection of papers describing a series of loosely related studies of visual attention, auditory stimulation, and language discrimination in young infants. Titles include: (1) Infant Attention and Discrimination: Methodological and Substantive Issues; (2) The Addition of Auditory Stimulation (Music) and an Interspersed…
Descriptors: Attention, Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception, Auditory Stimuli
