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Doan, Tiffany; Friedman, Ori; Denison, Stephanie – Child Development, 2021
Four experiments examined Canadian 2- to 3-year-old children's (N = 224; 104 girls, 120 boys) thoughts about shared preferences. Children saw sets of items, and identified theirs and another person's preferences. Children expected that food preferences would be more likely to be shared than color preferences, regardless of whether the items were…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Preschool Children, Foreign Countries, Preferences
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Forbes, Samuel H.; Plunkett, Kim – Child Development, 2020
When and how do infants learn color words? It is generally supposed that color words are learned late and with a great deal of difficulty. By examining infant language surveys in British English and 11 other languages, this study shows that color word learning occurs earlier than has been previously suggested and that the order of acquisition of…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Vocabulary Development, Color, Infants
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Gaines, Rosslyn; Powell, Gloria J. – Child Development, 1981
Developmental color perception of 278 four- and eight-year-old Black and White children in three societies was examined in relation to the theories that proximity to the equator and that fundus pigmentation (as measured by skin color) reduce shortwave (blue-green) in comparison to long-wave perception. (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Black Youth, Children, Color, Comparative Analysis