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THE VISUAL PREFERENCES OF CHILDREN *
Author(s) -
Hutt Corinne,
Forrest Barbara,
Newton Jill
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1976.tb00374.x
Subject(s) - psychology , preference , nice , association (psychology) , developmental psychology , semantics (computer science) , interpretation (philosophy) , linguistics , statistics , computer science , psychotherapist , programming language , philosophy , mathematics
Summary Five‐yr‐old children were found to “like” most those pictures which they looked at most while this association was considerably weaker in 7‐yr‐olds. Both groups of children looked longer at meaningful stimuli, whether Nice or Nasty, than at abstract designs, and the preferences of the younger children followed this trend whereas the preferences of the older children were in the order Nice > Neutral > Nasty. The interpretation of the results illustrated the interdependence of the developmental processes of attention, preference and semantics.