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Thirty children between 2V1/2 and 6 years of age traced a series of mazes under three different conditions of stimulus (crayon color) constancy. On the basis of several different measures, older children proved to be substantially more variable than younger children and, for all children, variability tended to increase with increasing stimulus variability.
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This research was supported in part by a faculty grant from Michigan State University to the author. Thanks are due Alice Granskog for her enthusiastic and skillful help in testing the children and tabulating the scores and also the staff of the Carol Lee Nursery, Lansing, Michigan, for their cooperation.
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Harris, L. Variability in maze drawings of young children: Effects of stimulus change and chronological age. Psychon Sci 23, 305–307 (1971). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03336123
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