Children tend to perform better in their learning of color categories when information and instances are presented in ordered similarity. 

Ordered Similarity, Distributed Presentation, and Category Learning in Children


Distinctive samples are shown to the individual close together. 


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Sequence by Similarity (Ordered Similarity) 

Sequence with Distributed Instances


Types of Sequence Organizations

Catherine M. Sandhofer & Leonidas A. A. Doumas (2008) Order
of Presentation Effects in Learning Color Categories, JOURNAL OF COGNITION AND DEVELOPMENT, 9:2, 194-221, DOI: 10.1080/15248370802022639

Order of Presentation Effects in Learning Color Categories

Similar samples are shown to the individual close to one another. 

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