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Peer reviewedThompson, G. Brian – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1975
Conducted two experiments which employed discrimination learning methods to test predictions related to the difficulty of discrimination of lateral reversals and of inversions when shapes are presented: (1) successively, (2) simultaneously in lateral alignment, and (3) simultaneously in vertical alignment. Subjects were 6-year-old children. (SDH)
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Foreign Countries, Hypothesis Testing, Perceptual Development
Peer reviewedTyler, J.; Hardy, R. C. – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1978
Thirty subjects were presented with a visual form discrimination task requiring them to match Roman letters when a variety of transformations were held constant. They were given massed practice across four blocks of eight stimuli. Results of a repeated measures analysis of variance showed support for the distinctive features hypothesis. (JC)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Discrimination Learning, Distinctive Features (Language), Hypothesis Testing
