Fifty-one children, ages 4, 5, and 6, wcre required to learn a temporal series of spatial positions under three expcrimental conditions which varied in their emphasis on visual and motor cues. For 5 and 6 year old subjects fewest errors were made undcr a condition which required overt motor activity. The greatest number of errors were made under the condition which minimized both kinethetic cues and cues of observed movement. There was no significant difference in performance between the overt motor condition, and a condition which involved cues of observed movement. The results support the hypothesis that covert motor processes may be important components of learning in children of this age. [...]
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.47627 |
| Date | January 1965 |
| Creators | Orbach, Leora. |
| Contributors | Rabinovitch, M. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Arts (Department of Psychology) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 000748764, proquestno: AAIMK00369, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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