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Smillie, D. – Human Development, 1972
Author claims that Piaget's account of the construction of reality needs modification and a shift in emphasis. (Author/MB)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavior Theories, Developmental Psychology, Infant Behavior
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Groenendaal, H. A.; Bakker, D. J. – Human Development, 1971
Thirty 7-year-old and 26 10-year-old boys were presented with temporal sequences of meaningful and meaningless figures to determine the differences in perception and retention of above- and below-average readers. (Author/AJ)
Descriptors: Mediation Theory, Perceptual Development, Primary Education, Reading Development
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Kinsbourne, Marcel; Lempert, Henrietta – Human Development, 1979
Reviews pertinent developmental and neuropsychological literature and arrives at a hypothesis relating the left brain lateralization of speech to the origin of early naming as part of selective (right-biased) orienting to perceived salience or change. (Author/SS)
Descriptors: Infants, Language Acquisition, Lateral Dominance, Literature Reviews
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Schweitzer, Thomas M.; Schnall, M. – Human Development, 1970
Paper is based on a Master's Thesis submitted by the senior author to the Department of Psychology, Brandeis University, 1967. (IR)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Elementary School Students, Perceptual Development
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Mackworth, N. H.; Brunner, J. S. – Human Development, 1970
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Processes
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Gyr, J. W.; And Others – Human Development, 1974
A study of whether perceptual processes of children can be viewed within a structuralist frame of reference and whether the concept of the group of transformations and related notions can be used to formulate perceptual phenomena and to predict experimental results. (Author/CS)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level
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Carlson, J. S. – Human Development, 1971
Descriptors: Blacks, Classification, Concept Formation, Language Acquisition
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Kasdorf, C. A., III; Schnall, M. – Human Development, 1970
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Elementary School Students
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West, Robin L.; And Others – Human Development, 1978
Studies the effects of perceptual salience on performance in problems requiring the coordination of information. Subjects were groups of children, younger adults, and older adults. For each of the age groups, those problems containing the most salient information were solved faster and more accurately than problems containing the least salient…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Processes, Discrimination Learning
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Kugelmass, S.; Lieblich, A. – Human Development, 1979
Israeli Arab- and Jewish-educated children were given perceptual exploration tasks to test the effects of language on directionality in reading and writing habits. (Author/SS)
Descriptors: Arabic, Children, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies