Examines whether novelty produces more or less attention than familiarity and incongruity, and whether children's learning behavior is related to these differences in attention. Subjects were 43 three- to five-year-old children. (BD)

In order to test the hypothesis that the ability to form verbal concepts would increase with age, a test for verbal concept formation was developed and administered to 668 children between the ages of 4 and 9. By varying sentences that describe nonsense figures, 4 variables were systematically explored. (MS)