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Authenticity Matters: Children Look beyond Appearances in Their Appreciation of Museum Objects
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van Gerven, Dylan; Land-Zandstra, Anne; Damsma, Welmoet – International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 2018
Authenticity is often supposed to play an important role in natural history museums. Yet we know very little about how it affects the perception and appreciation of museum objects. In the present study, we examined children's perceptions of real fossils and replicas. We explored four potential explanations underlying the appreciation of authentic…
Descriptors: Museums, Exhibits, Paleontology, Children
Distinguishing between the Partial-Mapping Preparation Hypothesis and the Failure-to-Engage Hypothesis of Residual Switch Costs
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Lindsen, Job P.; de Jong, Ritske – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2010
Lien, Ruthruff, Remington, & Johnston (2005) reported residual switch cost differences between stimulus-response (S-R) pairs and proposed the partial-mapping preparation (PMP) hypothesis, which states that advance preparation will typically be limited to a subset of S-R pairs because of structural capacity limitations, to account for these…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Visual Discrimination, Reaction Time, Hypothesis Testing
The Influence of Memory on Perception: It's Not What Things Look Like, It's What You Call Them
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Mitterer, Holger; Horschig, Jorn M.; Musseler, Jochen; Majid, Asifa – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2009
World knowledge influences how we perceive the world. This study shows that this influence is at least partly mediated by declarative memory. Dutch and German participants categorized hues from a yellow-to-orange continuum on stimuli that were prototypically orange or yellow and that were also associated with these color labels. Both groups gave…
Descriptors: Memory, German, Foreign Countries, Visual Perception
Perception of Number Change in Infancy.
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van Loosbroek, Erik; Smitsman, Ad W. – 1987
Infants' visual perception of number change was investigated in three studies. These studies focused on infants' perception of events in which the total number of objects in a small group was changed through addition of another object. Involving 60 infants 5 months of age, Study I attempted to determine whether subjects perceived the properties in…
Descriptors: Addition, Foreign Countries, Habituation, Infant Behavior
Visual Perception of Numerosity in Infancy.
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van Loosbroek, Erik; Smitsman, Ad. W. – Developmental Psychology, 1990
Infants were tested at 5, 8, and 13 months of age for numerosity perception. Subjects observed displayed figures on a screen moving at constant speed with irregular trajectories and occasional occlusions. Results demonstrated that discrimination of units, and not of characteristic patterns, underlies numerosity perception. (BC)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Infants, Longitudinal Studies, Pattern Recognition
Equivalence-Equivalence: Matching Stimuli with Same Discriminative Functions
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Carpentier, Franck; Smeets, Paul M.; Barnes-Holmes, Dermot – Psychological Record, 2004
Previous studies have shown that after being trained on A-B and A-C match-to-sample tasks, adults match not only same-class B and C stimuli (equivalence) but also BC compounds with same-class elements and with different-class elements (BC-BC). The assumption was that the BC-BC performances are based on matching equivalence and nonequivalence…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Discrimination Learning, Visual Discrimination, Logical Thinking