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Conditional Discrimination Learning in Children: Two Relevant Factors
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Doan, Helen McK.; Cooper, Deborah L. – Child Development, 1971
Descriptors: Conditioning, Cues, Discrimination Learning, Kindergarten Children
Children's Use of Component Patterns of Faces in Multidimensional Recall Problems
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Odom, Richard; Lemond, Carolyn M. – Child Development, 1974
The present study was designed to identify sources of information in the human face and to determine how this information is processed by young children in solving problems. (ST)
Descriptors: Information Processing, Kindergarten Children, Perceptual Development, Problem Solving
Behavior of Young Children with Down Syndrome Before the Mirror: Finding Things Reflected.
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Loveland, Katherine A. – Child Development, 1987
When children with Down's syndrome and normally developing children of comparable mental age were compared in their ability to find things they saw in a mirror, it was found that the ability of children with Down's syndrome paralleled that of normally developing children, but that motivational, attentional, and exploratory differences may exist.…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attention Span, Child Development, Downs Syndrome
Modification of Information Processing of Impulsive Children
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Zelniker, Tamar; Oppenheimer, Louis – Child Development, 1973
Examines the effect of different training methods on perceptual learning of impulsive children. A matching to sample method (M), and a differentiation method (D) were used. Data indicated that Ss receiving D training learned to process features distinguishing stimuli; whereas, Ss receiving M training showed no preference for a particular mode of…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Conceptual Tempo, Information Processing
The Role of Stimulus Alignment in Children's Memory for Line Orientation.
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Fisher, Celia B. – Child Development, 1982
In the first experiment, 16 kindergarten children were tested on vertical/horizontal and oblique discriminations in symmetrical and asymmetrical alignments. When stimuli were asymmetrically aligned, the former discrimination was learned as rapidly as the latter. The second experiment demonstrated that the influence of configurational cues in…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten Children
Discrimination Learning in Normal and Retarded Children as a Function of Instructions, Cue Locus, and Cue Relevance
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Drotar, Dennis – Child Development, 1974
Descriptors: Cues, Discrimination Learning, Elementary School Students, Handicapped Children