20 pre-school children were individually exposed to a piece of novel climbing apparatus on two consecutive days. The time Ss took to make physical contact with the apparatus was recorded each day. Approach time was significantly less upon second exposure. Differences between sexes or age groups did not produce significantly different approach times either on initial or second approaches.
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