Factors affecting children’s alternation and choice behaviors

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 13 - Trang 65-66 - 2014
Sharon Mauley1, Frank D. Miller1
1Department of Psychology, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, USA

Tóm tắt

Following 0, 3, 6, 12, or 24 exposures to a red or a green tight, 6-, 7-, and 8-year-old children were required on each of 31 trials to choose either the familiarized or a nonfamiliarized light by pushing a button which activated the chosen light. Response duration (RD) on each trial was either 1 or 11 sec for all Ss. Frequency of choice of the nonfamiliarized stimulus was increased by familiarization but did not vary as a function of amount of familiarization. Both alternation and latency varied with age and RD, but not with amount of familiarization.

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