Labels and children's perception of faces.

DOCUMENT RESUME PS 006 413 Katz, Phyllis A.; Seavey, Carol Labels and Children's Perception of Faces. City Univ. of New York, N.Y. National Inst. of Child Health and Human Development (NIH), Bethesda, Md.; Office of chi13 Development (DHEW) , Washington, D.C. [73] 14p. MF-$0.65 HC-$3.29 Caucasians; *Children; Color; *Cues; Elementary School Students; Technical Reports; *Visual Perception; Visual Stimuli The relation between type of label and perception of faces was assessed. Sixty-four second and sixth grade Ss were randomly assigned-to four experimental conditions in which various kinds of labeling training were associated with four purple and green smiling and frowning faces. Ss then judged the similarity of pairs of the faces. Results revealed the predicted effects of labeling only for white children. Labels associated with color cues augmented the perception of color differences, whereas labels based on expression increased differentiation of expression variations, but not of color cues. (Author) U. S. DEPArYt NT CI-