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Valentin, Dominique; Chanquoy, Lucile – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2012
This study examined the ability of children to classify fruit and flower odors. We asked four groups of children (4-11 years of age) and a group of adults to identify, categorize, and evaluate the edibility, liking, and typicality of 12 fruit and flower odors. Results showed an increase in interindividual agreement with age for the taxonomic…
Descriptors: Olfactory Perception, Classification, Child Development, Young Children
Jansen, Brenda R. J.; van Duijvenvoorde, Anna C. K.; Huizenga, Hilde M. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2012
Decisions can be made by applying a variety of decision-making rules--sequential rules in which decisions are based on a sequential evaluation of choice dimensions and the integrative normative rule in which decisions are based on an integration of choice dimensions. In this study, we investigated the developmental trajectory of such…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Investigations, Task Analysis, Children
Fisher, Anna V. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2011
Two experiments tested a hypothesis that reducing demands on executive control in a Dimensional Change Card Sort task will lead to improved performance in 3-year-olds. In Experiment 1, the shape dimension was represented by two dissimilar values ("stars" and "flowers"), and the color dimension was represented by two similar values ("red" and…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Experimental Psychology, Classification, Task Analysis
Buss, Aaron T.; Spencer, John P. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2012
The Dimensional Change Card Sort (DCCS) task requires children to switch from sorting cards based on shape or color to sorting based on the other dimension. Typically, 3-year-olds perseverate, whereas 4-year-olds flexibly sort by different dimensions. Zelazo and colleagues (1996, Cognitive Development, 11, 37-63) asked children questions about the…
Descriptors: Cues, Games, Behavior Standards, Cognitive Development
Schum, Nina; Franz, Volker H.; Jovanovic, Bianca; Schwarzer, Gudrun – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2012
We investigated whether 6- and 7-year-olds and 9- and 10-year-olds, as well as adults, process object dimensions independent of or in interaction with one another in a perception and action task by adapting Ganel and Goodale's method for testing adults ("Nature", 2003, Vol. 426, pp. 664-667). In addition, we aimed to confirm Ganel and Goodale's…
Descriptors: Evidence, Handicrafts, Visual Perception, Interaction
Bialystok, Ellen – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2011
Two groups of 8-year-old children who were monolingual or bilingual completed a complex classification task in which they made semantic judgments on stimuli that were presented either visually or auditorily. The task requires coordinating a variety of executive control components, specifically working memory, inhibition, and shifting. When each of…
Descriptors: Semantics, Short Term Memory, Monolingualism, Bilingualism
Arias-Trejo, Natalia; Plunkett, Kim – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2010
We investigated the impact of perceptual and categorical relatedness between a target and a distracter object on early referent identification in infants and adults. In an intermodal preferential looking (IPL) task, participants looked at a target object paired with a distracter object that could be perceptually similar or dissimilar and drawn…
Descriptors: Identification, Infants, Word Recognition, Classification
Nazzi, Thierry; Floccia, Caroline; Moquet, Berangere; Butler, Joseph – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2009
Using a name-based categorization task, Nazzi found in 2005 that French-learning 20-month-olds can make use of one-feature consonantal contrasts between new labels but fail to do so with one-feature vocalic contrasts. This asymmetry was interpreted as developmental evidence for the proposal that consonants play a more important role than vowels at…
Descriptors: Infants, French, English, Child Language
Recker, Kara M.; Plumert, Jodie M.; Hund, Alycia M.; Reimer, Rachel – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2007
This investigation tracked changes in categorical bias (i.e., placing objects belonging to the same spatial group closer together than they really are) while 7-, 9-, and 11-year-olds and adults were learning a set of locations. Participants learned the locations of 20 objects marked by dots on the floor of an open square box divided into…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Spatial Ability, Memory, Children

Jamison, Wesley – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1977
Two models of intertask relations, Wohlwill's divergent-decalage and reciprocal-interaction patterns, were evaluated for their fit to cross-classification tables which showed the joint classification of 101 children's performance on all possible pairs of eight concrete operational tasks. (SB)
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages, Primary Education

McGarrigle, James; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1978
Six experiments were reported which examine the young child's ability to compare included and nonincluded sets. Subjects were children from nursery and primary schools in Edinburgh. (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Linguistic Competence

Grote, Irene; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1996
Three preschoolers performed four sorts with stimulus cards--an untaught target sort and three directly taught alternating sorts considered to self-instruct the target performance. Accuracy increased first in the skill sorts and then in the untaught target sorts. All subjects generalized to new target sorts. Correct spontaneous self-instructions…
Descriptors: Classification, Concept Formation, Concept Teaching, Discrimination Learning
Mash, Clay – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2006
The current work examined age differences in the classification of novel object images that vary in continuous dimensions of structural shape. The structural dimensions employed are two that share a privileged status in the visual analysis and representation of objects: the shape of discrete prominent parts and the attachment positions of those…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Age Differences, Adults, Young Children