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Light, Paul; Foot, Teresa – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1986
Reports on three experiments involving 300 six-year old children that investigated the conditions under which young children would produce "separates" as opposed to partial occlusion drawings. (HOD)
Descriptors: Dimensional Preference, Freehand Drawing, Responses, Visual Learning
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Millar, Susanna – Child Development, 1972
Results showed that instructions significantly increased recognition accuracy. (Author/MB)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Preschool Children, Recognition, Responses
Duncan, Charlotte; Hartley, James – Programmed Learning Educ Technol, 1969
Descriptors: College Instruction, Recall (Psychology), Research, Responses
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Kaplan, Peter S.; Werner, John S. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1986
Tests infants' dual-process performance (a process mediating response decrements called habituation and a state-dependent process mediating response increments called sensitization) on visual habituation-dishabituation tasks. (HOD)
Descriptors: Attention, Habituation, Infants, Learning Processes
Millar, W. Stuart; Schaffer, H. Rudolph – 1972
Six- and nine-month-old infants were exposed to contingent or non-contingent perceptual stimulation from a source which was spatially displaced at 60 from the infant's midline. Reliable operant acquisition was observed in the case of the nine-month-old infants, but not in the case of the six-month-old infants whose performance was similar to that…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Infant Behavior, Object Manipulation, Operant Conditioning
Higgins, Norman C. – 1972
The lack of standardization in research involving pictorial variables has made it difficult to clarify the functions of pictorial stimuli in learning. This study sought to determine whether selected methods of rendering pictorial illustrations influenced the number and type of descriptive words evoked in a verbal association task. Normally the…
Descriptors: Association Measures, Associative Learning, Audiovisual Aids, Experimental Psychology