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Stability of First-Grade Children's Dimensional Preferences
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Offenbach, Stuart I.; And Others – Child Development, 1972
Results indicate that children's preferences were relatively stable over time. (Authors/MB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Color, Cues, Dimensional Preference
Toward an Explantation of the Syntagmatic-Paradigmatic Shift
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Francis, Hazel – Child Development, 1972
Research was designed to explore the basis of children's associations in matching and directed association tasks. (Author)
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes, Elementary School Students
A Sensory-Motor Context Affecting Performance in a Conservation Task: A Closer Analogue of Reversibility Than Empirical Return
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Schnall, Melvyn; And Others – Child Development, 1972
Study compares the effects of different conditions which imply reversibility on children's judgments of conservation of quantity. (Authors)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Conservation (Concept), Kindergarten Children, Perceptual Motor Coordination
Reversal Shifting: Its Stability and Relation to Intelligence at Two Developmental Levels
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Brier, Norman; Jacobs, Paul I. – Child Development, 1972
A single administration of the reversal learning paradigm is not a sufficient basis for determining either a given subject's choice of option or his behavior on its constituent learning measures. This conclusion raises many questions about past research relating to mediation theory, since this paradigm has been the basic one employed. (Authors)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Dimensional Preference, Discrimination Learning, Grade 2