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The understanding of the concept of living beings begins at an early age, with the representation of abstractions and their relationships through previous beliefs and ideas on the subject. These concepts will be framed from a quantitative research report with the analysis of the drawings and the understanding of the living being around plant life of a sample of children from Spain and the Dominican Republic, aged between 4 and 7 years old. The results show that among the colors with the greatest presence in the drawings studied are black, red, pink and violet. It turns out that there are significant differences between ages, countries and sex, with the youngest girls being the ones who most frequently depict these colors on the plant world. As children grow older and improve in cognitive development, they make better representations of the plant world.
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