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Poulin-Dubois, Diane; Serbin, Lisa A.; Derbyshire, Alison – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1998
Examined 18-month olds' intermodal and verbal knowledge about gender. Presented photos of adults or children paired with a female or male voice, or with gender labels. With adult pictures, subjects spent more time looking at pictures with matching voices than at those with mismatched voices. With children's pictures, subjects failed to match faces…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Familiarity
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Bauer, Patricia J.; Liebl, Monica; Stennes, Leif – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1998
Examined preschool children's inferences about the likely appearance of a target figure based on information about the figure's occupation or personality traits. Without explicit gender-category information, girls' performance on gender-consistent and gender-inconsistent trials was equivalent; boys performed better on same-sex attributes. With…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Familiarity
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Quinn, Paul C.; Eimas, Peter D. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1986
Reviews the research literature on the abilities of infants to categorize visual information on dot patterns; schematic faces; hue; and orientation. (HOD)
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Psychology
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Golikoff, Roberta Michnick; And Others – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1995
Reviews five books: (1) "Modularity and Constraints in Language and Cognition" (Gunnar and Maratsos); (2) "Beyond Modularity: A Developmental Perspective on Cognitive Science" (Karmiloff-Smith"; (3) "The Self-System: Developmental Changes between and within Self-Concepts" (Oosterwegel and Oppenheimer); (4)…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures, Economics Education