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Peer reviewedMiller, Patricia H.; Heller, Kirby A. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1976
This study examined the relation between number conservation and attention to number, density, and length or area in 86 kindergarteners and 18 third graders. (Author/SB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Conservation (Concept), Dimensional Preference
Peer reviewedMiller, Patricia H.; Weiss, Michael G. – Child Development, 1981
Strategies of allocating attention to information and incidental learning task performance were assessed among 60 children from grades 2, 5, and 8. Children's predictions about their recall of incidental objects and answers to a posttest questionnaire provided verbal measures of their understanding of attention. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewedMiller, Patricia H. – Child Development, 1973
Results show that both kindergarten nonconservers and kindergarten conservers found height most salient. Third-grade conservers found quantity most salient but could easily attend to height and width. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Conservation (Concept), Data Analysis
Peer reviewedDeMarie-Dreblow, Darlene; Miller, Patricia H. – Child Development, 1988
This study of 114 children between seven and nine years used a procedure for directly observing child-produced and experimenter-produced strategies to examine the transitional period of strategy development. Findings revealed gradual changes in children's ability to produce, and to benefit from, a strategy of selective attention. (RH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development
