Bausano M K, Jeffrey W E
Child Dev. 1975 Dec;46(4):988-91.
3-year-olds were shown triads of rectangles and asked to select the "big" one, where the biggest rectangle in each triad was neither the tallest nor the widest. Dimensional salience and response choice were highly related. In addition, as saliency of a particular dimension increased relative to the other dimension, significantly more responses were based on that dimension. The results support the notion that the young child does not rely on 1 specific dimension to make judgments of bigness but, rather, attends to the most salient differences among stimuli.
研究人员向3岁儿童展示了由三个矩形组成的组，并要求他们选择“大的”那个矩形，其中每个组中最大的矩形既不是最高的也不是最宽的。维度显著性和反应选择高度相关。此外，随着某一特定维度相对于另一维度的显著性增加，基于该维度的反应显著增多。这些结果支持了这样一种观点，即幼儿并非依赖于一个特定维度来做出大小判断，而是关注刺激物之间最显著的差异。
