Cultural deprivation and the relative preferences of preschool children for complex and novel stimuli.
To determine their relative effects, the preferences of 19 deprived and 21 non-deprived preschoolers for both complex stimuli and novel stimuli was measured. The deprived children showed a lack of preference for the novel stimuli but did not differ from the non-deprived group in their preference for complexity. These data clarified a confounding of these stimulus dimensions which had occurred in previous studies.
D001364:Awareness; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002755:Choice Behavior; D003071:Cognition; D003657:Decision Making; D005260:Female; D005556:Form Perception; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011610:Psychosocial Deprivation; D014796:Visual Perception