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Argyropoulos, Ioannis; Gellatly, Angus; Pilling, Michael; Carter, Wakefield – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2013
Object-substitution masking (OSM) occurs when a mask, such as four dots that surround a brief target item, onsets simultaneously with the target and offsets a short time after the target, rather than simultaneously with it. OSM is a reduction in accuracy of reporting the target with the temporally trailing mask, compared with the simultaneously…
Descriptors: Evidence, Interaction, Spatial Ability, Attention
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Coldren, Jeffrey T.; Colombo, John – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1994
Replies to Gholson's commentary (PS 522 655) on the article by Coldren and Colombo in this monograph. Discusses limitations in the shift procedure methodology traditionally used in research on discrimination learning, and considers the use in future research of methodologies that can precisely decompose children's responses to feedback during…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Conditioning, Discrimination Learning, Infants
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Bishop, Gale; Smith, Jerome – American Journal of Psychology, 1971
Experiment conducted to determine the different effects of a mediational method of verbal learning and visual-discrimination verbal learning. (Author/MM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Discrimination Learning, Language Acquisition, Psychology
Andre, J. – J Exp Child Psychol, 1969
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Deafness, Discrimination Learning, Handicapped Children
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Halford, Graeme S. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1997
Reviews "Levels of Cognitive Development," which presents a theory of cognitive development integrating discrimination- learning research with understanding of higher cognitive processes. Argues that strengths include its presentation of systematic research and providing continuity between past and present models. Weaknesses include…
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Associative Learning, Book Reviews, Child Development
Curcio, Frank; Weiss, Beverly – 1974
A total of 186 kindergarteners were pretested on number conservation and two cognitive style measures representing Kagan's impulsivity-reflectivity dimension and Santostefano's leveling-sharpening dimension. From this sample 72 nonconservers were assigned to one of three conservation training conditions: reversibility training, discrimination…
Descriptors: Cognitive Objectives, Cognitive Processes, Conceptual Tempo, Conservation (Concept)
Levin, Joel R.; Ghatala, Elizabeth S. – 1976
When 112 fifth- and sixth-graders were observed for their use of one of two possible rehearsal strategies in verbal discrimination learning tasks, the strategy in which the children generated a functional explanation of the word showed a positive influence on simple frequency discriminations. Data analyses also indicate that under this strategy…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Discrimination Learning, Grade 5, Grade 6