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Frye, Douglas; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1986
Investigates the problem young children have in constructing diagonals, noting that, on the whole, they can not make diagonals in the horizontal/vertical configuration. (HOD)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Difficulty Level
Rojahn, Johannes; And Others – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1994
This study examined whether 49 adults with mild or moderate mental retardation could perform reliably enough on the Penn Facial Discrimination Task to make this a useful research measure for evaluating visual-receptive processing. Results found subjects generally performed well above chance level, that retest reliability was reasonably high, and…
Descriptors: Adults, Discrimination Learning, Facial Expressions, Mild Mental Retardation
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Whiteley, John H. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1985
Subjects from kindergarten-age to adult participated in four experiments. In order to view the stimuli, subjects in three experiments activated lights in viewing boxes; in the fourth experiment, stimulus fixations were measured using a corneal reflection technique. Results supported the view that visual observing is controlled by cognitive…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Development