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ERIC Number: EJ114667
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1975
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Discrimination of Mirror-Image shapes by Young Children
Thompson, G. Brian
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 19, 1, 165-176, Feb 75
Conducted two experiments which employed discrimination learning methods to test predictions related to the difficulty of discrimination of lateral reversals and of inversions when shapes are presented: (1) successively, (2) simultaneously in lateral alignment, and (3) simultaneously in vertical alignment. Subjects were 6-year-old children. (SDH)
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Foreign Countries, Hypothesis Testing, Perceptual Development, Primary Education, Visual Discrimination
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Identifiers: Mirror Images; New Zealand