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Effects of Differential Experience on Infants' Performance in a Piagetian Stage IV Object-Concept Task
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Landers, William F. – Developmental Psychology, 1971
Reports on an experiment which involved 42 7 1/2-10 1/2-month-old infants playing a two-position hidden-object game. Results were interpreted to support and extend previous explanations of Stage IV of object-concept development. This report is a revised version of a paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Infant Behavior
Children's Motivational Perception as Related to the Instrumentality and Effect of Action
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Whiteman, Martin; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1974
The utility of Heider's model for specifying relations between perceived properties of an act and the attributed intentionality of the act is explored empirically with children of varying ages. (Author/ED)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Child Development, Concept Formation
Spatial Transpositions and the Early Development of Search.
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Sophian, Catherine – Developmental Psychology, 1984
Examines mastery of spatial-transposition problems by 20-, 30-, and 42-month-old children. Subjects performed well on irrelevant transpositions of three cups. However, on relevant transpositions the correct cup was not selected until 42 months. Results suggest that children initially acquire search patterns on an experimental basis and gradually…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Concept Formation, Exploratory Behavior
Where Do I Go Next? Intelligent Searching by Very Young Children.
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DeLoache, Judy; Brown, Ann L. – Developmental Psychology, 1984
Investigates the organization of searching by 21- and 27-month-old children who were required to remember where a toy had been hidden. Initial search behavior on "surprise" trials was less persistent than behavior on error trials. Subsequent search behavior on "surprise" trials was selective and intelligent for older children.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Association (Psychology), Behavior Patterns, Concept Formation