Word: toyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tests, a six-year-old child is seated in front of three cylinders, one right before him and the other two a short distance away. The child is asked to name his favorites of two toy figures on the two distant cylinders...
Before the youngster is given his toy, he is asked to estimate its size by pulling a metal rod out of the cylinder right before him. In almost all cases the child guesses the toy to be a bit larger than its three-inch length...
...soldiers and toy Indians are helping the Social Relations Department prove that the same thing looks different to the same person...
...process is repeated a second time, but after the youngster has guessed the new toy's size, he is suddenly not allowed to have it. The tester than asks his subject to estimate again the size of the toy he desires...
This time the child guesses the toy to be still larger than he thought before...