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The use of observed differences to distinguish and construct classes and categories.
D. DUBOIS observed that the first ability used by the small baby is the capability to recognize a difference between two objects of its environment.
Later on the baby becomes able to make multiple discriminations and finally to register similarities between different objects. In this way it acquires the ability to sorting out multiple discriminations and start to establish in this way hierarchical classifications. (1991, p.5).
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