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The effects of visual and auditory stimuli on the movement behavior was explored with pre-school children. 52 children, age 3 to 5 years, were divided into four groups. Each group performed a dance activity, two subjects at a time, under the following conditions: group 1-music/mirror, group 2-no music/mirror, group 3-music/no mirror, and group 4-no music/no mirror. The activity involved a mimicked dance (there was an adult modelling the dance movements) and an independent dance (the subjects danced by themselves, making up their own dance). The music groups danced to Hap Palmer's "Let's Dance" and the "Jig" from The Little Mermaid Soundtrack. Results indicated significant differences in on-task behavior (highest for no music/mirror and music/no mirror), and in rhythmic movement (highest in music conditions). Statistical differences were not found for mimicked movement or for the movement behavior in the independent activity. The experimenter concluded that young children have difficulty processing more than one sensory stimuli, simultaneously, in a new movement activity. Further research involving practice, and other populations is discussed. / Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 31-01, page: 0023. / Director: Jayne M. Standley. / Thesis (M.M.)--The Florida State University, 1992.

In this dissertation, I explore determinants, and some consequences, of persistence in consumer search. Many prominent thinkers have considered the problem of search in terms of optimal solutions, or their heuristic approximations. In the following research, I explore persistence in search not merely as a function of economic calibration, but rather as an outcome determined by both cognitive and motivational processes. I provide evidence that normative models of search are insufficient to explain the behavior of those whom I study. Instead, I show cases in which search persistence is a function of prior behavior (Chapter 1) and prior beliefs (Chapter 2). I further propose a cognitive model of price search behavior (Chapter 3) that can predict many of the observed behaviors that would be considered mistakes in normative price search frameworks (e.g., variance neglect, reference point effects, local contrast effects).