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Peer reviewedBerger, Carole; Hatwell, Yvette – Cognitive Development, 1993
The developmental change from global toward dimensional classifications, usually observed in vision, was investigated in haptics with stimuli varying according to their size and roughness. Results indicated that, although more overall similarity classifications were observed in children than in adults, this kind of classification was never…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Classification
Peer reviewedSchmidt, Constance R.; Shatz, Marilyn – Developmental Psychology, 1986
Examines how children's responses to questions about object terms varied across objects and the degree to which children specified common and conventional values for different object dimensions. (HOD)
Descriptors: Adults, Communication Research, Communication Skills, Concept Formation
Peer reviewedMarkson, Lori; Thompson, Laura A. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1998
Two experiments explored the nature of perceptual development in 5- and 10-year olds and adults. The primary finding was that preassessed salience significantly influenced 5-year olds' ability to discriminate two objects, while salience did not affect 10-year olds' or adults' response times. Results showed that salience effects in perceptual…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Attention, Children
