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There is a tremendous amount of stimulus information in the child’s world. Children develop a number of methods for reducing the complexity of the environment to a more manageable level. One of these methods is to analyze stimuli into dimensions such as color, size, and shape. This process of extracting dimensions will be labeled “dimensionalization.” A definition of dimensionalization will be the focus of the final section of this chapter. In brief, dimensionalization refers to any process that provides the child with information about properties that can be ordered dimensionally. Dimensionalization helps the child both gather information about objects and solve problems that involve objects, such as discrimination learning tasks.
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Miller, P.H. (1979). Stimulus Dimensions, Problem Solving, and Piaget. In: Hale, G.A., Lewis, M. (eds) Attention and Cognitive Development. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2985-5_5
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