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Gardner, Howard; Lohman, William – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1975
A study which required children (ages 7-19) to make and justify decisions about which literary fragments belonged to the same work. Responses provided information about relative appeal of style and subject matter; kinds of stimuli and alternatives most likely to elicit literary style sensitivity; and strategies and rationales employed by subjects.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, College Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Literary Discrimination
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Ward, Thomas B.; Vela, Edward – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1986
Describes two studies that demonstrate young children's perception of color materials differs from that of adults in two ways: (1) the stimulus dimensions of hue, chroma, and value appear to result in somewhat more separable perception for young children than for adults, and (2) the perceived similarities the color materials are not the same for…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, College Students, Color
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Girgus, Joan S. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1976
Three experiments were performed using an aperture-viewing technique to assess the accuracy of shape perception when subjects were required to emit eye movements in order to pick up shape information, compared with the accuracy of shape perception when subjects were not required to emit eye movements. All three experiments explored whether the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, College Students, Elementary School Students, Eye Movements
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Kasdorf, C. A., III; Schnall, M. – Human Development, 1970
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Elementary School Students
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Kugelmass, Sol; Lieblich, Amia – Child Development, 1970
Reports replication and extension of Elkind and Weiss's study of perceptual exploration using 122 Israeli children. In general, results were upheld and reflected the influence of school experiences seen most specifically in the right-left directionality expected to result from learning to read Hebrew. (WY)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, College Students, Cultural Differences
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Miller, Leon K. – Child Development, 1971
Research was designed to determine whether developmental differences in sensitivity to more peripherally presented material could be found under conditions in which overt eye movements during the presentation of task material were not possible. (Author)
Descriptors: Age Differences, College Students, Data Analysis, Grade 2
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Cowan, Nelson; Saults, J. Scott; Morey, Candice C. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2006
Verbal-to-spatial associations in working memory may index a core capacity for abstract information limited in the amount concurrently retained. However, what look like associative, abstract representations could instead reflect verbal and spatial codes held separately and then used in parallel. We investigated this issue in two experiments on…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Spatial Ability, Correlation, Age Differences
Rapoport, Judith L. – J Exp Child Psychol, 1969
Research supported by Public Health Service Special Fellowship 15,590.
Descriptors: Age Differences, Age Groups, College Students, Discrimination Learning
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Smith, Glenn Gordon; Olkun, Sinan – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2005
This study has important implications for microworlds such as Logo, HyperGami, and Newton's World, which use interaction to learn spatial mental models for science, math, geometry, etc. This study tested the hypothesis that interactively rotating (dragging) virtual shapes primes mental rotation. The independent variable was observation vs.…
Descriptors: Interaction, Computer Uses in Education, Spatial Ability, Cognitive Processes
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Cottrell, Jane E.; Winer, Gerald A. – Developmental Psychology, 1994
Ancient philosophers, such as Plato and Euclid, believed in an extramission theory of visual perception, which held that there are emissions from the eyes during the act of vision. Three studies, comparing college and elementary school students, found a decrease over age in the belief in extramission and an increase in the belief that vision…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attitude Change, College Students, Ears
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Miller, Leon K. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1981
This study was designed to provide evidence concerning hemispheric independence in the visual modality of children and adults. Words and letters were shown either singly or in pairs. Hemispheric independence occurred more frequently among children when letters, as opposed to words, were shown. Results are discussed in terms of developmental models…
Descriptors: Age Differences, College Students, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
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Miller, Leon K. – Developmental Psychology, 1978
Investigates age differences in selective attention in a coded visual search task where subjects were given different types of information about target location before trial onset. (Author/SS)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention Control, Cognitive Processes, College Students