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Peer reviewedModreski, Regina A.; Goss, Albert E. – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1972
Four-year-old boys and girls initially named and matched by form more often than by color. Also, agreements involving form names and matches occurred more often than agreements involving color names and matches. (Authors)
Descriptors: Color, Concept Formation, Dimensional Preference, Preschool Children
Peer reviewedMiller, Patricia H. – Child Development, 1973
Results show that both kindergarten nonconservers and kindergarten conservers found height most salient. Third-grade conservers found quantity most salient but could easily attend to height and width. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Conservation (Concept), Data Analysis
Download full textMiller, Asenath A.; Starzec, James J. – 1974
Children's performance on multidimensional classification tasks was examined in two experiments. In Experiment 1, preschool, first-, and third-grade children were shown a standard stimulus and were then asked to judge whether several comparison stimuli were the same as or different from the standard. Comparison stimuli differed from the standard…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, Developmental Psychology, Dimensional Preference
