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Mental Rotation of Facial Profiles: Age-, Sex-, and Ability-Related Differences.
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Merriman, William E.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1985
Analyzes sex-related differences between mental rotation rate and spatial ability among adults, 14-year-olds, and 9.5-year-olds to determine the extent to which rotation rate is a correlate of various abilities. (HOD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Age Differences, Children
Control of Children's Observing Responses by Information Feedback during Visual Discrimination Learning.
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Whiteley, John H. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1985
Subjects from kindergarten-age to adult participated in four experiments. In order to view the stimuli, subjects in three experiments activated lights in viewing boxes; in the fourth experiment, stimulus fixations were measured using a corneal reflection technique. Results supported the view that visual observing is controlled by cognitive…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Development
Infant Imitation and Memory: Nine-Month-Olds in Immediate and Deferred Tests.
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Meltzoff, Andrew N. – Child Development, 1988
Investigates ability of nine-month-old infants to imitate simple actions with novel objects. Looks at both immediate and deferred imitation. Findings show that imitation in early infancy can span wide enough delays to be of potential service in social development. (Author/RWB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Imitation, Infant Behavior
On Categorization in Early Infancy.
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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
The Effect of the Form Complexity of Television on the Identification/Recognition Process.
White, Sylvia E. – 1983
To measure how the complexity of a television image affects the viewer's ability to identify or recognize visual details within the image, two coders rated the form complexity of 30 public service announcements, basing their evaluation on the familiarity of the images in the announcements, the rate at which they presented new information, and the…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Perception Tests
Locational versus Featural Information in Adult Visual Memory.
Thomas, Jeanne L. – 1983
Research on adult memory for nonverbal representations has found a significant age-related decrement in performance. To investigate age differences in adult locational versus featural information in visual memory, 90 adult women (29 young women with a mean age of 21; 30 middle aged women with a mean age of 43; and 31 older women with a mean age of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Aging (Individuals), Cognitive Processes, Eidetic Imagery
Attentional Aspects of Classroom Behavior and Discrimination Learning.
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Strand, Steve C. – Research in Developmental Disabilities, 1991
This study found that teachers' ratings of their 8 severely mentally handicapped pupils' (ages 9-18) classroom behavior were correlated with children's performance on a discrimination learning task. The factors of attention/distractibility and responsivity to consequences correlated significantly with number of errors and number of trials to…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Behavior Problems, Cognitive Processes, Conceptual Tempo