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Peer reviewedHale, Gordon A.; Piper, Richard A. – Developmental Psychology, 1973
These results suggest that, for the purpose of measuring children's incidental learning, materials with integrated components such as color and shape are functionally different from stimuli with spatially independent components. (Authors)
Descriptors: Developmental Psychology, Grade 3, Grade 8, Incidental Learning
Download full textHale, Gordon A.; Stevenson, Edward E., Jr. – 1971
An assessment was made of 5- and 8-year-old children's performance on a short-term memory task under two auditory and two visual distraction conditions, as well as under a nondistraction condition. Performance under nondistraction was found to be superior to that under distraction (p<.001), indicating that the extraneous stimuli had a generally…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Child Development, Comparative Analysis
Peer reviewedHale, Gordon A.; Morgan, Judith S. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1973
A new method is introduced for assessing children's component selection--i.e., the disposition to attend to a single feature of multifaceted stimuli. (Authors)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Cues, Developmental Psychology
Peer reviewedHale, Gordon A.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1978
The development of capacity for attention was assessed by giving children 5, 8, 9, and 12 years of age a component-selection task with instructions to attend to one component or another, or with no specific instructions regarding the stimuli. (CM)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention Control, Attention Span, Elementary Education
Hale, Gordon A.; Lipps, Leann E. T. – 1973
As children grow older they show an increasing preference for classifying objects on the basis of shape rather than color. To clarify the nature of this "dimension preference," children of ages 3 1/2 to 6 1/2 years were given a method of triads test of dimension preferences, followed (after a week's delay) by a component selection task. The most…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Children, Classification
