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Preschool Children's Performance in Task Switching on the Dimensional Change Card Sort Task: Separating the Dimensions Aids the Ability to Switch
Adele D. Diamond, Stephanie M. Carlson, Danielle M. Beck · 2005 · Developmental Neuropsychology
- Children
- About 60 children
- Where
- The United States and Canada
- Ages
- 2½ to 3½ years
- How
- Researchers played a card-sorting game with each child
- What it found
- Only about 1 in 3 of these young children could switch from sorting cards by colour to sorting by shape. When colour and shape were shown separately, about 6 in 10 could.
- Limits
- A small group of young children.