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Peer reviewedHirschfeld, Lawrence A. – Cognitive Psychology, 1993
Two experiments involving 49 3- and 47 4-year-old French preschoolers studied their memories for racial and other social information to test claim that perceptual factors are integral to derivation and representation of racial categories. Results cast doubt on claim that perceptual information is crucial component of racial categories and are more…
Descriptors: Child Development, Classification, Foreign Countries, Memory
