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The Influence of Color,Size,Shape Similarity and Difference on Children’s Inductive Reasoning

CHEN Qing-fei, LEI Yi, LI Hong   

  1. Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality, Ministry of Educatio, Southwest University, Sino-Canadian Centre for Research in Child Development, Chongqing 400715
  • Online:2011-01-15 Published:2011-01-15

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Abstract: On the basis of previous researches,this paper examined the influence of color,size and shape information on children's inductive reasoning.In two tasks,a total of 68 children were presented with two premise pictures with three kinds of features(color,size and shape),followed by test picture similar to or different from the premise pictures.When test picture was similar to one of the premise pictures in size,the other in color or shape,children generalized the containing property of premise picture in size similarity to test picture firstly;What's more,when test picture was similar to one of premise pictures in color,the other in shape,children generalized the containing property of premise picture in shape similarity to test picture(Task 1).When one of premise pictures varied in size,the other in shape,children firstly generalized the containing property of premise picture in size variety to test picture;However,when one of premise pictures varied in color,the other in shape or size,no significant difference was found.In addition,no matter there were two features(eg.,one in size and color,the other in shape and color)or one feature(one in size and the other in shape)varied in the premise pictures,children's choice made no difference.It's suggested that it was feasible to vary color,size and shape information independently.

Key words: Induction, primary school students, shape bias, diversity, similarity

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  • B844.1
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