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ERIC Number: EJ086572
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1973
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A Developmental Study of Factors Influencing Discrimination Transfer
Cole, Michael
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 16, 1, 126-147, Aug 73
Examines the importance of (1) dimensional characteristics of stimuli present in discrimination transfer tasks, (2) having contrasting stimuli presented simultaneously, and (3) subjects age. Subjects were rural Mexican youths, ages 4 to 10. Reversal and nonreversal type discrimination transfer problems were used in the study. (DP)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Discrimination Learning, Elementary School Students, Learning Processes, Mediation Theory, Preschool Children, Shift Studies, Visual Stimuli
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Identifiers: Mexico