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Prather, P A; Bacon, Joshua – Child Development, 1986
Describes preschool children's ability to simultaneously perceive multiple aspects of an object in two experiments during which three- to five-year-olds were asked to describe part/whole pictures. (HOD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Metacognition, Perceptual Development, Pictorial Stimuli
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Aguiar, Andrea; Baillargeon, Renee – Child Development, 1998
Three experiments examined whether 8.5-month-olds considered an object's width and compressibility when determining whether it could be inserted into a container. Results suggested that infants realized that large balls could fit into large but not small containers, whereas small balls could fit into both containers. Infants understood that large…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Infants, Tactile Stimuli, Tactual Perception
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Pauen, Sabina – Child Development, 2002
Two studies examined whether infants' category discrimination in an object-examination task was based solely on an ad hoc analysis of perceptual similarities among the experimental stimuli. Findings indicated that 10- to 11-month- olds' responses varied systematically only with the presence of a category change, but not with the degree of…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Development, Discrimination Learning, Infant Behavior
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Kuchuk, April; And Others – Child Development, 1986
Examines whether three-month-old infants can detect variations within the single expression category of smiling and whether individual differences in infants' sensitivities are related to identifiable mother or infant behaviors. (HOD)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Facial Expressions, Individual Differences, Infants
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Kerpelman, Larry C. – Child Development, 1967
Four-, five-, and six-year-old children were used as subjects in this investigation. There were 192 experimental and 96 control children used, divided equally between the three age groups. The experimental children received a 1-minute pretest exposure procedure in which 1/4 of the children observed 4 two-dimensional stimuli (irregular pentagons),…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Discrimination Learning, Grade 1, Kindergarten Children