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Thom, Emily E.; Sandhofer, Catherine M. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2009
This study experimentally tested the relationship between children's lexicon size and their ability to learn new words within the domain of color. We manipulated the size of 25 20-month-olds' color lexicons by training them with two, four, or six different color words over the course of eight training sessions. We subsequently tested children's…
Descriptors: Color, Training, Vocabulary, Language Acquisition
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Kulig, John W.; Tighe, Thomas J. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1981
Three experiments demonstrated (1) habituation and long-term retention of habituation to a tone stimulus in third-grade children, (2) specificity of habituation to an auditory stimulus in first- but not fifth-grade children, and (3) specificity of habituation in fifth-grade children in response suppression when a cross-modality stimulus change was…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Auditory Perception, Auditory Stimuli, Children
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Rosner, Sue R. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Elementary School Students, Junior High School Students
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Ehri, Linnea C.; Wilce, Lee S. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1979
Three experiments were conducted to explore the effect of word training on interference patterns in the picture-word task. Subjects were first and second graders. (MP)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education
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Torgesen, Joseph K.; Davis, Charlotte – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1996
Cognitive abilities that predicted growth in response to a 12-week training program in phonological awareness were investigated in 100 kindergarten children. Findings suggested that growth in analytic awareness was predicted by invented spelling and general verbal ability, while growth in synthetic awareness was predicted by a combination of…
Descriptors: Auditory Training, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Kindergarten