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A Developmental Study of the Effect of Organizational Cues on Short-Term Memory
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McCarver, Ronald B. – Child Development, 1972
The performance of the older subjects (10 years and up) was facilitated by the organizational cues, whereas that of younger subjects was not. (Author)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cues, Data Analysis, Developmental Psychology
The Influence of Contingent and Noncontingent Social Reinforcement upon Children in a Simple Operant Task
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Pawlicki, Robert E. – Child Development, 1972
Results of the present study confirm the importance of the contingency variable in experiments dealing with the effect of supportive comment upon children's performance. (Author)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Extinction (Psychology), Grade 3, Performance Factors
Methodological Improvements in the Assessment of Phonological Discrimination in Children
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Kamil, Michael L.; Rudegeair, Robert E. – Child Development, 1972
Two major implications of this study are that repeated testing is a necessity for young children, and that repeated contrasts may provide a more accurate assessment of phonological discrimination ability in children. (Authors/MB)
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Auditory Discrimination, Data Analysis, Discrimination Learning
Mothers' Test of Anxiety and Task Selection and Children's Performance with Mother or a Stranger
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Blechman, Elaine A.; Nakamura, Charles Y. – Child Development, 1971
When high anxious mothers administered tasks to their children, they facilitated the task performance of their daughters but were strongly detrimental to that of their sons. Low anxious mothers chose more difficult tasks for sons than for daughters, and they facilitated the task performance of sons more than that of daughters. (Authors/RY)
Descriptors: Achievement, Anxiety, Behavioral Science Research, Data Analysis
Visual Scanning Strategies of Reflective, Impulsive, Fast-Accurate, and Slow-Inaccurate Children on the Matching Familiar Figures Test
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Ault, Ruth L.; And Others – Child Development, 1972
Descriptors: Conceptual Tempo, Elementary School Students, Eye Movements, Grade 3
An Experimental and Ethological Analysis of Social Reinforcement with Retarded Children
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Paris, Scott G.; Cairns, Robert B. – Child Development, 1972
Research combined an experimental analysis of the cue properties of evaluative comments with a naturalistic account of the functions that such events serve in everyday interchanges. (Authors)
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Handicapped Children, Interaction Process Analysis, Mental Retardation
A Sensory-Motor Context Affecting Performance in a Conservation Task: A Closer Analogue of Reversibility Than Empirical Return
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Schnall, Melvyn; And Others – Child Development, 1972
Study compares the effects of different conditions which imply reversibility on children's judgments of conservation of quantity. (Authors)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Conservation (Concept), Kindergarten Children, Perceptual Motor Coordination
Conservation of Number and Continuous Quantity in Normal, Bright, and Retarded Children
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Brown, Ann L. – Child Development, 1973
The relation of CA, MA, and IQ to conservation was examined by comparing the performance of bright, normal, and retarded children matched on the critical MA of six years. (Author)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Conservation (Concept), Exceptional Persons, Handicapped Children