Abstract
A task was developed to study the generalization of a prohibition in preschool children as a function of amount of information given them. Ss were given a supply of building blocks, some of which they were free to use and some of which were forbidden. One-half of the Ss were given explicit information about the characteristics of the forbidden blocks, while for the other half of the Ss the forbidden blocks were identified but their distinctive features were not pointed out. Ss were then given a different, but similar, set of blocks and were asked to put aside the forbidden ones. It was hypothesized that Ss with specific information would generalize appropriately to the new set of blocks, while those without such information would generalize on the basis of irrelevant stimulus features. The hypothesis was supported.
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