title: Preschool children's discrimination of age.
abstract: This study compared abilities of 4- and 5-yr.-olds to be accurate in  connoting "who is older" without using size representation as a cue. An age discrimination task was administered to 30 4-yr.-olds and 30 5-yr.-olds. Analysis indicated that the 5-yr.-old children had better ability to discriminate age than the 4-yr.-old children but were not equal to adults. No significant sex differences were found in the children's ability to discriminate age.
mesh_terms: D000375:Aging; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003463:Cues; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012858:Size Perception