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West, Elizabeth Anne – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 2008
The author examined the transfer of stimulus control from instructor assistance to verbal cues and pictorial cues. The intent was to determine whether it is easier to transfer stimulus control to one form of cue or the other. No studies have conducted such comparisons to date; however, literature exists to suggest that visual cues may be…
Descriptors: Cues, Autism, Responses, Young Children
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Blais, Chris; Besner, Derek – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2006
Translation accounts have argued that the presence of a Stroop effect in the context of a nonvocal untranslated response is caused by verbal mediation. In its simplest form, color-labeled buttons are translated into a verbal code that interferes with color responses. On this logic, in the reverse Stroop task (identify the word; ignore the color),…
Descriptors: Translation, Visual Learning, Color, Responses
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Light, Paul; Foot, Teresa – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1986
Reports on three experiments involving 300 six-year old children that investigated the conditions under which young children would produce "separates" as opposed to partial occlusion drawings. (HOD)
Descriptors: Dimensional Preference, Freehand Drawing, Responses, Visual Learning
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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