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Simpson, Andrew; Riggs, Kevin J. – Infant and Child Development, 2009
Understanding how responses become prepotent is essential for understanding when inhibitory control is needed in everyday behaviour. We investigated prepotency in the grass-snow task--in which a child points to a green card when the experimenter says "snow" and a white card when the experimenter says "grass". Experiment 1 (n =…
Descriptors: Inhibition, Child Behavior, Perceptual Development, Neuropsychology
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Constable, Hilary; And Others – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 1988
Discussion of students' understanding of illustrations in textbooks focuses on a British study designed to determine whether secondary school pupils could identify cut surfaces of objects in biological illustrations. Implications for theories of perceptual development and the role of illustrations in teaching are discussed, and further research…
Descriptors: Biology, Developed Nations, Foreign Countries, Illustrations