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Humphrey, G. Keith; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1986
Reports on four experiments on pattern perception in four-month-old infants. The first experiment examined preference for patterns varying in structure; the second examined encoding patterns from different subset sizes; and the last two experiments examined changes in the size, position, and orientation of the habituation pattern. (HOD)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Habituation, Infants, Orientation
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Kaplan, Peter S.; Werner, John S. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1986
Tests infants' dual-process performance (a process mediating response decrements called habituation and a state-dependent process mediating response increments called sensitization) on visual habituation-dishabituation tasks. (HOD)
Descriptors: Attention, Habituation, Infants, Learning Processes
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Moore, Vanessa – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1986
Examines whether young children, aged four to nine years old, are satisfied with their own method of drawing a familiar object, or whether they would ideally like to draw in a more advanced way but are hampered by production differences from achieving this aim. (HOD)
Descriptors: Design Preferences, Evaluation Criteria, Foreign Countries, Freehand Drawing