Albert E. Goss

Naming, Selection, and Ordering of Color (“Hue”) by Young Children

Summary Appropriate naming and selection of red, yellow, green, and blue (focal) hues and of eight intermediate hues, and relationships between them, increase with age of 3-, 4-, and 5-year-old nursery-school children. Training to name focal hues does not influence naming, selection, or relationships between them. Ordering also increases with age, but appropriate placements are relatively infrequent, inconsistent, and not related to naming and selection.

Paired-associate learning by young children as functions of initial associative strength and percentage of occurrence of response members

Abstract Acquisition of verbal paired-associates by preschool-aged and kindergarten-aged children was related to initial strength of associations between stimulus members and response members (IAS), facilitative or competitive patterns of the pairing of those members (P), and percentage of occurrence of response members (%ORM). Across and at both age levels, rate of acquisition was a direct function of %ORM. With the facilitative pattern, for kindergarten-aged children but not for preschool-aged children rate of acquisition was a direct function of IAS. With the competitive pattern, IAS had no significant effects at either age level.