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Schaller, M. Joseph; Harris, Lauren Jay – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1974
Elementary school children made same-different judgments of prototypes of letterlike forms paired with transforms of these prototypes generated on a dimension either critical or noncritical for object identification. Results challenge the view that dimensions irrelevant in object identification are ignored or not detected in graphic…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Elementary School Students, Perceptual Development, Research Problems
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Aitken, P. P.; Hutt, Corinne – Child Development, 1974
Children, ages 3 to 10 were asked to rank random polygons, which differed in complexity according to interestingness and pleasingness. Complexity preferences varied with age. (ST)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Elementary School Students, Interest Research, Pattern Recognition
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Girgus, Joan S.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1975
One hundred and sixty subjects ages 7, 9, 11 and 21 years judged the standard Brentano form and a dot form of the illusion of 5 trials at 30 second intervals. (LLK)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
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Pufall, Peter B. – Developmental Psychology, 1975
Tested 63 kindergarten children on a spatial perspective task in which they copied the location and orientation of objects when the model and response spaces were aligned or when one was rotated 90 degrees or 180 degrees. (LLK)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Egocentrism, Kindergarten Children, Perceptual Development
Lundegren, Herberta M. – Journal of Physical Education and Recreation, 1975
This article discusses the correlation between cognitive learning and academic success of children who show retardation in perceptual capability. (JS)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Children, Low Achievement, Perception Tests
Gutierrez, Armando G.; Hirsch, Herbert – Aztlan, 1974
Crystal City (Texas) Chicano students were administered questionnaires to examine the relationship between maturation and the development of political awareness. (NQ)
Descriptors: Maturation, Mexican Americans, Perceptual Development, Political Socialization
Mattson, Beverly; And Others – 1981
Learning characteristics of children with spina bifida (lesions on the spinal cord) are reviewed in the text of a presentation with slides, and the effects of such factors as hospitalization experiences and the presence of hydrocephalus are considered. Characteristics related to intelligence, sensory integration, tactile responsiveness, tactile…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Learning Problems, Motor Development, Perceptual Development
Deno, Stanley L.; Chiang, Berttram – 1979
The paper examines the nature and remediation of reversal errors in five severely learning disabled boys (9-11 years old). Results of four phases (baseline and incentive conditions) are analyzed for timed and untimed performance of letter recognition. Among results cited are that for all Ss, errors in naming occurred with the letters p, d, b, and…
Descriptors: Children, Error Analysis (Language), Exceptional Child Research, Intervention
Souther, Arthur F.; Banks, Martin S. – 1979
This study explores the reason why very young infants are unable to respond differentially to faces and the cause for developmental changes in infant face perception by age 3 months. Linear systems analysis (LSA) and the contrast sensitivity function (CSF) were used to estimate the facial pattern information available to 1- and 3-month-old…
Descriptors: Infants, Pattern Recognition, Perceptual Development, Recognition (Psychology)
FAUSTMAN, MARION NEAL – 1967
A STUDY OF KINDERGARTEN PERCEPTION WAS MADE TO DETERMINE IF A FORMAL PROGRAM IN PERCEPTION IN KINDERGARTEN WOULD CONTRIBUTE TO THE GROWTH OF PERCEPTION IN CHILDREN AT THE END OF THE KINDERGARTEN YEAR AND TO SUCCESS AT THE FIRST-GRADE LEVEL. FOURTEEN KINDERGARTEN CLASSES WERE CHOSEN AT RANDOM FOR A CONTROL GROUP, AND 14 CLASSES WERE CHOSEN AT…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Kindergarten, Perceptual Development
ROBERTSON, JEAN E. – 1967
FIFTEEN RESEARCH STUDIES IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT ARE SURVEYED. PARTICULAR EMPHASIS IS GIVEN TO FELDMAN WHO RECOMMENDS A "CODE-FIRST" PROGRAM FOR BEGINNING READING. THE TERM "CODE" REFERS TO THE LETTER SYMBOLS REPRESENTING THE CHARACTERISTIC SPEECH SOUNDS OF ENGLISH. SOME OF THE PROBLEMS IN PERCEPTION AND THE IMPLICATIONS FOR…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Child Development, Grade 1, Kindergarten
MEYERSON, DANIEL W. – 1967
BASED ON THE HYPOTHESIS THAT KEPHART PERCEPTUAL TRAINING WOULD SHARPEN VISUAL PERCEPTION IN PERCEPTUALLY HANDICAPPED KINDERGARTENERS, THIS PROGRAM STUDIED 58 SUCH CHILDREN ACCORDING TO THREE CATEGORIES (1) THE FROSTIG DEVELOPMENTAL TEST OF VISUAL PERCEPTION, (2) SOCIO ECONOMIC STATUS, AND (3) VISUAL ACUITY (KEENNESS). THE CHILDREN WERE DIVIDED…
Descriptors: Educational Programs, Kindergarten Children, Perceptual Development, Perceptual Handicaps
Haag, Kimberley; And Others – 1979
Fourteen profiles of students in kindergarten through grade 8 provide information on characteristic behavior of learning disabled or behavior disordered students. Characteristics are matched up with appropriate strategies from a list of 188 in the back of the book. Profiles include hyperactive, withdrawn, clumsy, friendless, bewildered, and…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education, Hyperactivity
Janssen, Cynthia M. – 1979
The assessment of vision as it relates to and interacts with motor development is reviewed. The focus is on eye readiness skills normally occuring in infants' first few months of life and preceding eye-hand coordination. These visual skills fall into three categories: fixation, tracking, and scanning. Six standardized scales are reviewed and…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Eye Hand Coordination, Infants, Perceptual Development
Jusczyk, Peter W.; Thompson, Elizabeth – 1977
This study explored three aspects of the 2-month-old's perception of multisyllabic utterances. Questions addressed were: (1) Do infants perceive phonetic contrasts occurring either in the initial (Bada-Gada) or medial (Daba-Daga) positions of multisyllabic utterances; (2) Are infants more likely to perceive these contrasts in stressed as opposed…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception, Auditory Stimuli, Infant Behavior
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