Psychological Development and Education ›› 2010, Vol. 26 ›› Issue (5): 449-456.

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Factors Influencing Children’s Numerical Development: Surface Similarity Effect and Shared Labels Effect

HAN Cong-cong, CHEN Pu-jing, CHEN Ying-he   

  1. Instituds of Developmental Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
  • Online:2010-09-15 Published:2010-09-15

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Abstract: This study explored how surface similarity effect and shared labels effect influenced the performance of 60 children aged 3 to 5 on the numerical equivalence task and numerical comparison task.This study tried to examine whether and how the surface similarity effect affected children's performance on two different experimental conditions,congruent vs.incongruent.Further,it was hypothesized that give-objects task would have more advantages over give-a-number task in test number labels.The following conclusions were drawn:(1)the 4-year-olds and 5-year-olds performed significantly better on the numerical equivalence task and numerical comparison task than 3-year-olds did;(2)when surface similarity was congruent(i.e.,all sets contained the same objects),children performed significantly better than they did on the incongruent condition of numerical equivalence and comparison; (3)children who understood the number words for the target sets performed above chance in the equivalence task and comparisons task.

Key words: number concepts, surface similarity effect, shared labels effect

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  • B844.2
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