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Peer reviewedRosser, Rosemary A.; And Others – Child Development, 1984
The ability of 40 children four and five years of age to discriminate reflections and rotations of visual stimuli was examined in a kinetic imagery task. Results revealed that prediction accuracy was associated with the existence of orientation markers on the stimuli, as well as age, sex, type of discrimination, and several interactions among the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cues, Preschool Children, Preschool Education
Peer reviewedFrye, Douglas; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1986
Investigates the problem young children have in constructing diagonals, noting that, on the whole, they can not make diagonals in the horizontal/vertical configuration. (HOD)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Difficulty Level
Peer reviewedCasey, M. Beth – Developmental Psychology, 1984
Evaluates preschoolers' ability to distinguish left-right mirror-images of objects on a memory task and ability to name rows of objects on a page in a consistent lateral direction. Abilities were assessed first without specific instructions on the relevance of left-right information and then with instructions. (Author/AS)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Individual Differences, Memory, Perceptual Development
Peer reviewedMerriman, William E.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1985
Analyzes sex-related differences between mental rotation rate and spatial ability among adults, 14-year-olds, and 9.5-year-olds to determine the extent to which rotation rate is a correlate of various abilities. (HOD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Age Differences, Children
Peer reviewedWhiteley, John H. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1985
Subjects from kindergarten-age to adult participated in four experiments. In order to view the stimuli, subjects in three experiments activated lights in viewing boxes; in the fourth experiment, stimulus fixations were measured using a corneal reflection technique. Results supported the view that visual observing is controlled by cognitive…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Development
Peer reviewedHiggins, Anne T.; Turnure, James E. – Child Development, 1984
Preschool, second-, and sixth-grade children performed developmentally gradated, easy and difficult visual discrimination tasks in a quiet room or with one of two levels of extraneous auditory stimulation. Subjects' errors, response latencies, and glances away from the task were recorded. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Cognitive Ability, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedPipp, Sandra; Haith, Marshall M. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1984
Visual fixations were recorded in newborn, 4-, and 8-week-old human infants as they scanned displays that varied in contour length, size, number, and a new metric, CVAL (based on Contour Variability, Amount and Location). One of the findings was that both contour length and CVAL separately accounted for approximatel1 95 of looking-duration…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention Span, Dimensional Preference, Eye Fixations
Thomas, Jeanne L. – 1983
Research on adult memory for nonverbal representations has found a significant age-related decrement in performance. To investigate age differences in adult locational versus featural information in visual memory, 90 adult women (29 young women with a mean age of 21; 30 middle aged women with a mean age of 43; and 31 older women with a mean age of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Aging (Individuals), Cognitive Processes, Eidetic Imagery
