Shimizu M
Nara Teachers' College of Early Childhood Education, Japan.
Percept Mot Skills. 1996 Apr;82(2):611-6. doi: 10.2466/pms.1996.82.2.611.
80 children (40 three-yr.-olds, 23 boys and 17 girls, and 40 five-yr.-olds, 22 boys and 18 girls) were presented pairs of quadrangles (square vs rectangle) and triangles (two isosceles triangles) and asked to select the bigger one. The pairs were varied on the area ratio of paired stimuli and magnitude in differences between height and width. Although 3-yr.-olds tended to rely on area in making their judgments and also occasionally relied on height, almost all 5-yr.-olds relied on height. These results were discussed in relation to the tasks used in the previous studies, the basis in judgment of bigness, and the Japanese word for "big."
80名儿童（40名三岁儿童，23名男孩和17名女孩，以及40名五岁儿童，22名男孩和18名女孩）被展示了四边形（正方形与长方形）和三角形（两个等腰三角形）的配对，并被要求选择较大的那个。这些配对在配对刺激的面积比以及高度和宽度的差异大小上有所不同。尽管三岁儿童在做出判断时倾向于依赖面积，也偶尔依赖高度，但几乎所有五岁儿童都依赖高度。这些结果结合先前研究中使用的任务、大小判断的依据以及日语中表示“大”的词汇进行了讨论。
