Abstract
Two- and three-year-old children were administered a free-sorting task with familiar or unfamiliar forms and colors. We expected that children would be more likely to classify objects together when the objects matched in some way that was familiar to them. The results confirmed that expectancy. The results also indicated that experience with cues may override other factors, such as preference, in determining how a set of objects is sorted. We conclude that stimulus familiarity may be an important factor to consider in studies of the origins of children’s classification abilities.
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