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Download full textFriedman, Steven; And Others – 1973
This study uses a habituation paradigm to systematically investigate the discrepancy hypothesis with male and female new borns. In addition, multiple visual response measures are used in monitoring the habituation process and the infant's response to various degrees of novelty. Ss were 36 apparently normal newborns (half of each sex) ranging in…
Descriptors: Attention, Infant Behavior, Infants, Research Reports
Peer reviewedMcCall, Robert B. – Developmental Psychology, 1973
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Eye Fixations, Infants
Reilly, Thomas – Percept Mot Skills, 1970
Descriptors: College Students, Figural Aftereffects, Motion, Research
Peer reviewedStrayer, Janet – Child Development, 1993
Examined children's emotional and cognitive responses to emotionally evocative vignettes. Results indicated age-related increases in children's responses. Found limited increases with age in children's concordant emotions, or emotions identical to emotions of persons in the vignettes, and continuous increases with age in children's attributions…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Development
COHEN, DAVID B. – 1967
THE EFFECT OF INCIDENTAL VISUAL STIMULI ON THE EFFICIENCY OF LEARNING FACTUAL MATERIAL BY FRESHMAN COLLEGE STUDENTS WAS INVESTIGATED. THE INVESTIGATORS DETERMINED WHETHER THE PROVISION OF INCIDENTAL STIMULI, WHEN USED TO FACILITATE LEARNING, RESULTED IN IMPROVED TEST PERFORMANCE. BRIEF, HIGH INTENSITY STIMULI, SEX DIFFERENCE, COLOR OF FOCAL…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Educational Research, Learning, Learning Processes
Peer reviewedRoyer, Fred L. – Intelligence, 1978
Three forms of a symbol-digit substitution task were administered to 62 female and 96 male college students. Results support the theory that the superior performance of women over men on the Digit-Symbol Substituion subtest of the Wechsler scales is due to their greater ability to encode symbols verbally. (Author/JAC)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Higher Education, Intelligence, Learning Processes
Peer reviewedCarlier, Michele – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Creativity, Divergent Thinking
Cheong, George S. C. – 1977
The main purpose of this study was to investigate whether children's perceptual comprehension of symmetrical numerical displays was greater than their comprehension of asymmetrical numerical displays. Effects of sex, age and socioeconomic status were looked at. Seventy-three kindergarten and first grade children participated in the study.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Dimensional Preference, Elementary School Students, Number Concepts
Maxwell, Martha J. – 1971
The relationship between learning style (impulsivity-constriction and stability-anxiety), reading scores, and scanning performance was investigated. Twenty high school students enrolled in a precollege reading and study skills program participated in an 80-trial (10-session) scanning experiment. The task involved searching for a target sentence…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Conference Reports, Eye Movements, High School Students
Hart, Russ A. – 1986
This exploratory study was conducted to investigate the potential interaction between the media attribute, horizontal screen placement, and a learner's cognitive aptitudes, fluid ability, and visualization. The primary hypothesis tested was that low-ability learners who are without well-developed assembly and control operations should perform…
Descriptors: Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Cognitive Style, Concept Formation, Field Dependence Independence
