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The Role of Visual-perceptional Clues in the Small Discrete Quantities Representation of Preschool Children

LAI Ying-hui1, CHEN Ying-he1, CHEN Cong2   

  1. 1. Institute of Developmental Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China;
    2. Department of Psychology, School of Humanities and Sciences, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
  • Online:2012-07-15 Published:2012-07-15

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Abstract: This study analyzed the role of visual-perceptional clues in the small numerical values representation of preschool children.80 children preformed the magnitude discrimination task,and 74 of them preformed the magnitude comparison tasks.The results showed that young children did not show the preference of accumulated surface areas,they can analyze the accumulated surface areas and the number of biscuits simultaneously,in order to distinguish the abstract magnitude relation.This ability enhanced with age,most of the subjects with low magnitude discrimination abilities were 3 and 4-year-old,in which the younger group performed significantly better in square biscuits condition than rounded biscuits.When the accumulated surface areas interfered the magnitude comparison,the correct rate became lower with the magnitude ratio growing,so the small magnitude representation was no longer accurate; while the perceptual features of single elements were more distinctive,the correct rate of magnitude compare was no longer interfered by the magnitude ratio.This indicated that the single and global perceptual clues are both affect the small magnitude representation, suggesting that the small magnitude representation of preschool children is not always precisely,it sometimes also needs the analog magnitude systeml.

Key words: preschool children, small amount of number, discrete quantity representation, visualperceptional clues

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  • B844. 1
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