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Peer reviewedSmiley, Sandra S. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1972
Color and form preferences of kindergarten, first and third grade Ss were tested using standard two-dimensional geometric forms. (Author)
Descriptors: Children, Color, Cues, Dimensional Preference
Download full textHale, Gordon A.; Lipps, Leann E. T. – 1973
As children grow older they show an increasing preference for classifying objects on the basis of shape rather than color. To clarify the nature of this "dimension preference," children of ages 3 1/2 to 6 1/2 years were given a method of triads test of dimension preferences, followed (after a week's delay) by a component selection task. The most…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Children, Classification
Peer reviewedGholson, Barry; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1972
In the course of two experiments, groups of kindergarten, second, fourth, sixth grade and college students received several discrimination problems to investigate hypothesis testing behavior. (Authors/MB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, College Students, Developmental Psychology
