Organization and elaboration in children's repeated production of prose

Article Abstract:

Prose production was viewed as domain-specific and is accomplished by children based on specific production schemes that comply with the production task's requirements. Experiments were conducted to test the hypothesis that repeated productions aids content elaboration provided a semantic similarity exists across passage schemes. Results revealed that second versions of descriptive and narrative passages were longer and more elaborate only when thesame scheme was employed. The findings suggest that semantic relatedness is an important factor in content elaboration with repeated productions.

Psychological aspects, Storytelling, Reproduction (Psychology), Recall (Memory), Content (Psychology), Mental content, Child communication, Storytelling ability in children

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Reversal of emergent simple discrimination in children: a component analysis

Article Abstract:

Reversed emergent discrimination is more a function of stimulus contiguity than of reversed contingency. However, reversed emergent discrimination performance is produced only if the initial performance is based on contiguity. A series of four experiments were conducted on eight preschoolers to measure both Baseline and Reversal phases. The experiments help determine the relationship between reversed performance and variables such as color discrimination and the contiguity of test conditions.

Analysis, Preschool children, Discrimination learning

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Further exploration of human neonatal chromatic-achromatic discrimination

Article Abstract:

Newborns are unable to make chromatic-achromatic discriminations when stimulus size is smaller than eight degrees. Even with large stimuli, performance is relatively poor in the blue and yellow green spectral regions. Experiments are conducted to provide a more complete picture of the "color space" of newborns by testing their ability to make chromatic-achromatic discriminations, especially in spectral areas that border those in which infants appear incapable of using wavelength information.

Infants (Newborn), Newborn infants, Observations, Discrimination, Color vision

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