Visual Perception in Children

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This paper explains that since infants have no way to communicate how much they can discriminate in what they see, researchers note the amount of time spent gazing at different images. It discusses how visual perception is one of the first tools an infant uses to begin the learning process, and he or she continues to use it throughout life.

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"A variation on the standard Stroop task has been used to test children for a phobia of spiders, understanding that the children do not have the necessary verbal skills to complete most tests. A questionnaire was filled out, with the experimenter explaining it to the children and completing it on their behalf. Answers to the questionnaire were used to classify participants as phobic or non-phobic. Four pictures each, of houses, spiders, and filler pictures of teddy bears were used in the experiment. The pictures were printed in a one of four colors of ink, each of which appeared 20 times. The children were shown the pictures and asked to identify the color of the ink used in each picture as quickly as they could, with the total time being recorded on a stopwatch."

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