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Steinbrenner, Jessica R.; Hume, Kara; Odom, Samuel L.; Morin, Kristi L.; Nowell, Sallie W.; Tomaszewski, Brianne; Szendrey, Susan; McIntyre, Nancy S.; Yücesoy-Özkan, Serife; Savage, Melissa N. – FPG Child Development Institute, 2020
Autism is currently one of the most prominent and widely discussed human conditions. Its increased prevalence has intensified the demand for effective educational and therapeutic services, and intervention science is providing mounting evidence about practices that positively impact outcomes. The purpose of this report is to describe a set of…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Children
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Hagen, Margaret A. – Developmental Psychology, 1976
The importance of awareness of the pictorial surface and point of observation was investigated in children and adults. The effect of station point was found to interact with pictorial surface and age, thus suggesting the development of a mechanism of compensation for the perspective distortion of oblique view. (JMB)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Perceptual Development
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Gyr, J. W.; And Others – Human Development, 1974
A study of whether perceptual processes of children can be viewed within a structuralist frame of reference and whether the concept of the group of transformations and related notions can be used to formulate perceptual phenomena and to predict experimental results. (Author/CS)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level
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Portnoy, Enid P.; Gardner, Julie M. – 1980
Somatotyping is a term that has evolved for the reliable recognition of the expected relationship between body type and personality traits. Using a somatotypic measure, a study was conducted to identify the developmental changes in children's attraction preferences within their own peer groups, as tested in kindergarten, third, and sixth grades.…
Descriptors: Children, Communication Research, Elementary Education, Interpersonal Attraction
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West, Robin L.; And Others – Human Development, 1978
Studies the effects of perceptual salience on performance in problems requiring the coordination of information. Subjects were groups of children, younger adults, and older adults. For each of the age groups, those problems containing the most salient information were solved faster and more accurately than problems containing the least salient…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Processes, Discrimination Learning
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Wartella, Ellen – 1978
A total of 100 third and ninth grade students participated in a study to determine how children of different ages perceptually segment a continuing behavior sequence presented on a television program. The children were shown a short segment from a motion picture on a videotape viewer. Following the viewing, the children completed unitizing…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Processes, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Parr, Joan L.; Halperin, Marcia S. – 1978
This study investigated the development of children's perceptions of clothing, particularly as a form of nonverbal communication. Sixteen boys and sixteen girls at five grade levels (kindergarten, second, fourth, sixth and eighth grades) were interviewed individually. A series of six questions was asked to determine whether the children used…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Age Groups, Children, Clothing
Odom, Richard D. – 1977
This paper examines the concept of decalage from two cognitive-change positions (structures of logical thought and attentional and verbal mediators) and proposes an alternative explanation for decalage from a perceptual-change point of view. The term decalage is used to summarize the relation between differences in performance of various age…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Children, Cognitive Development
Ives, William, Comp. – 1979
More than 300 citations of books, articles, and conference papers published primarily within the last 20 years are listed with brief descriptions. The works include discussions of developmental theory, art education, art criticism, aesthetics, and philosophy of science as well as experimental studies. Research topics cover aspects of cognition…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Art Appreciation, Art Education, Artists
Witmer, Helen L., Ed. – 1967
One of a series of reports on the findings of studies of child health and welfare services and of matters relevant to providing such services is presented. The primary purpose of the series is to promote the utilization of research findings by those who make policy and those who administer programs in the fields of child health and welfare. In the…
Descriptors: Adoption, Affection, Child Development, Child Rearing