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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

Coldren, Jeffrey T.; Colombo, John – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1994
In three experiments, nine-month-old infants were trained to fixate on a particular feature in a pair of stimuli that varied along three dimensions. In a fourth experiment, infants were trained to fixate on a stimulus compound until reaching a learning criterion. Infants' discrimination learning under these conditions implied an ability to attend…
Descriptors: Attention, Dimensional Preference, Discrimination Learning, Eye Fixations