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Developmental Differences in Judgments of Recency and Frequency: Quantitative or Qualitative?
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Chalmers, Kerry A.; Grogan, Melissa J. – Cognitive Development, 2006
The basis of young children's performance of judgments of recency and frequency was investigated using a modified version of Huppert and Piercy's [Huppert, F. A., & Piercy, M. (1978). The role of trace strength in recency and frequency judgements by amnesic and control subjects. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 30, 347-354]…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Individual Development, Young Children, Pictorial Stimuli
Do Young Children Acquire Number Words through Subitizing or Counting?
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Benoit, Laurent; Lehalle, Henri; Jouen, Francois – Cognitive Development, 2004
Two alternative hypotheses can be used to explain how young children acquire the cardinal meaning of small-number words. The first stresses the role of counting and predicts better performance when the items are presented in succession. The second considers the role of subitizing and predicts better performance when the items are presented…
Descriptors: Young Children, Hypothesis Testing, Numbers, Cognitive Development
Age Changes in Attention Control: Assessing the Role of Stimulus Contingencies
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Brodeur, Darlene A. – Cognitive Development, 2004
Children (ages 5, 7, and 9 years) and young adults completed two visual attention tasks that required them to make a forced choice identification response to a target shape presented in the center of a computer screen. In the first task (high correlation condition) each target was flanked with the same distracters on 80% of the trials (valid…
Descriptors: Visual Stimuli, Attention Control, Children, Young Adults