Children's analysis of hierarchical patterns: evidence from a similarity judgement task
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Young children's performance on a forced choice similarity judgement task reveals that their ability to analyze complex spatial patterns improves from preschool to early school age. The task requires hierarchical organization of spatial patterns. Four year olds have the ability to integrate spatially separate parts into meaningful wholes. However, this analytic competence is is weaker and more vulnerable to disruption, as compared to that in older children or adults. With development, there is increasing tendency to make similarity judgements based on coherent whole rather than its parts.
Publication Name: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0022-0965
Year: 1996
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Children's perception of faces of varied immaturity
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The relationship between facial immaturity and the perception of youthfulness, helplessness and cuteness is examined. The study is made up of two experiments using college students and children. The first study reveals that college students considered faces with large eyes, rounded faces and small noses as youthful while the second shows that children are inclined to identify angular faces with youthfulness.
Publication Name: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0022-0965
Year: 1997
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