Experience and Preference for Complexity in Children's Choices
- 1 December 1970
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Vol. 31 (3) , 757-758
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1970.31.3.757
Abstract
The effects of experience upon preference for stimulus complexity were investigated. On each of 8 trials, children chose a colored candy from 4 simultaneously-presented stimulus arrays of differing complexity levels. Results indicated a significant increase in the level of complexity chosen from Trial 1 to 2, a decrease from 2 to 4, and an increase from 4 to 8 ( p < .01). These results support predictions of AL theory but differ from those of Dember and Earl (1957).Keywords
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