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ERIC Number: EJ145298
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1976
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Children's Attention to Stimulus Components with Variation in Relative Salience of Components and Degree of Stimulus Integration
Hale, Gordon A.; Green, Roberta Z.
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 21, 3, 446-459, Jun 76
Four hundred children ages 5, 9, and 12 were given a component selection task with stimuli differing in color and shape. Results indicate a greater tendency for older than younger children to withdraw attention from a normally dominant component when advantageous to adopt another feature as the primary functional cue. (Author/SB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cues, Discrimination Learning, Elementary Education, Research
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