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In the present pilot study, we investigated how adults and school-aged children (typically developing and with learning difficulties) form conceptual categories through testing procedures that are assumed to promote abstract thinking. The comparison of these age groups is of interest, since abstract way of thinking arises at school age but is not completed until adulthood. Moreover, it is the first time to our knowledge that a typically developing sample is compared to children displaying learning disabilities, in studying abstract thinking. In the study, 30 adults (mean age = 32,4 years), 36 typically developing children (mean age = 8,93) and 14 children with learning difficulties (mean age = 9,7) were asked to create classifications through a free three-dimensional object classification procedure. A mixed ANOVA revealed more taxonomic than thematic classifications overall. Moreover, adults made fewer classifications as compared to the children of both groups (whose scores did not differ significantly from each other). However, no interaction between age and type of classification was observed. In conclusion, it seems that application of a modified free object classification test can promote abstract thinking during three-dimensional object classification regardless of age. Beyond these pilot findings, further research is suggested to identify motivational parameters in classification, as well as classification patterns in clinical groups experiencing learning difficulties.

Διερεύνηση της ικανότητας ταξινόμησης σε ενήλικες και παιδιά μέσω μίας δοκιμασίας ελεύθερης ταξινόμησης με τρισδιάστατα αντικείμενα