SENSORY PROCESSING AND THE RECOGNITION OF FORMS IN NURSERY-SCHOOL CHILDREN.

Autor: DENNER, BRUCE, CASHDAN, SHELDON
Zdroj: British Journal of Psychology; 1967, Vol. 58 Issue 1/2, p101-104, 4p
Abstrakt: Recognition of forms under varying sensory input conditions was studied in three groups of pre-school children. One group inspected an object visually while the two other groups were given the additional experience of handling the object either directly or encased in a ball of clear plastic (haptic and manual conditions). Recognition and verbal recall measures were obtained two days later. No differences in verbal recall were observed. In agreement with previous research, performance by the 'visual only' group was worse than by the other two groups. Since the recognition by first two groups was equally good, it is suggested that the component underlying haptic facilitation of learning may simply be the amount of concrete activity involved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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