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Smith, J. David; Redford, Joshua S.; Washburn, David A.; Taglialatela, Lauren A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2005
Screeners at airport security checkpoints perform an important categorization task in which they search for threat items in complex x-ray images. But little is known about how the processes of categorization stand up to visual complexity. The authors filled this research gap with screening tasks in which participants searched for members of target…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Classification, Screening Tests, Security Personnel
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Cornoldi, Cesare; Venneri, Annalena; Marconato, Fabio; Molin, Adriana; Montinari, Cinzia – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2003
An 18-item "Shortened Visuospatial Questionnaire" (SVS) was validated twice, first by verifying that children (ages 8-13) identified with the SVS questionnaire as having visuospatial learning disability (VSLD) (n=54) actually showed visuospatial deficits on psychometric evaluation, and second, by rating with the SVS a clinically identified…
Descriptors: Disability Identification, Elementary Education, Learning Disabilities, Questionnaires
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Hill, Everett W.; And Others – RE:view, 1992
This article discusses the development of an orientation and mobility screening measure suitable for use with children having severe visual impairments (and possibly additional impairments) from birth through five years of age. Twenty instructors rated the measures as being useful. The two forms of the measure (for either ambulatory or…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Blindness, Infants, Measures (Individuals)