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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
