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Peer reviewedFisher, Celia B. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1980
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Kindergarten Children, Memory, Review (Reexamination)
Peer reviewedFisher, Celia B. – Child Development, 1979
In Experiment I, 24 preschoolers were tested on left-right, vertical-horizontal, and mirror-image oblique discriminations under essentially context-free conditions. Experiment II contrasted children's performance under context-free conditions with their ability to discriminate orientation in the presence of external visual cues. (RH)
Descriptors: Cues, Memory, Orientation, Preschool Children
Peer reviewedFisher, Celia B. – Child Development, 1982
In the first experiment, 16 kindergarten children were tested on vertical/horizontal and oblique discriminations in symmetrical and asymmetrical alignments. When stimuli were asymmetrically aligned, the former discrimination was learned as rapidly as the latter. The second experiment demonstrated that the influence of configurational cues in…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten Children
