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Multidimensional Shape Similarity in the Development of Visual Object Classification
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Mash, Clay – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2006
The current work examined age differences in the classification of novel object images that vary in continuous dimensions of structural shape. The structural dimensions employed are two that share a privileged status in the visual analysis and representation of objects: the shape of discrete prominent parts and the attachment positions of those…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Age Differences, Adults, Young Children
Age- And Sex-Related Variation in Performance on a Figural-Conceptual Task
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Guttman, Ruth; Kahneman, Irah – Developmental Psychology, 1972
Study deals with a comparative developmental analysis of performances on the same task by four age groups. (MB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comparative Analysis, Concept Formation, Developmental Psychology
Definitions of Bullying: A Comparison of Terms Used, and Age and Gender Differences, in a Fourteen-Country International Comparison.
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Smith, Peter K.; Cowie, Helen; Olafsson, Ragnar F.; Liefooghe, Andy P.D. – Child Development, 2002
Used stick-figure cartoons depicting various peer social situations to investigate meanings given by children in 14 countries to native terms cognate to bullying. Found that 8-year- olds primarily discriminated nonaggressive and aggressive situations; 14-year-olds discriminated fighting versus physical bullying and verbal bullying versus social…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Bullying, Children, Comparative Analysis