Colour psychology: Child learning patterns:
Colour can help connect the neuropathways in the brain. When the correct colour is found for a person's problem subject, then that subject becomes a lot easier for the child as the student starts to experience the joys of learning. It was found in a study that children wearing coloured goggles who were made to complete pegboard tests were found to solve the tests much faster than wearing goggles of their favourite colour.
A study conducted in 1993 by Boyatzis & Varghese followed by subsequent studies in 2001 and 2003 showed a relationship between colour preferences and student's colour performance. Colour has three basic attributes: hue, value and saturation. Colour is also classified based on its temperature. Human eyes on the other hand have rods and cones that help to differentiate different colours. When colour passes through the retinal cells in the eyes, the receptor cells absorb the hues and send a signal to the brain where the colours are deciphered. These brain impulses also fall on the hormone regulating endocrine glands which then evoke emotional and psychological responses to such colours.
Colour and physical reactions in children:
Children also react to colours on a physical level. The explanation behind this is that the light enters the hypothalamus which controls the nerve centres, as well as the heart rate and respiration. The wavelength and energy of each colour varies and affects children differently. Even newborns react to light, a fact highlighted by infant jaundice being treated using blue light.
Colour psychology: Children and the different colours:
How do different colours impact learning and memory in children?
- Blue - enhances creativity and stimulates a cool and relaxing environment, however should not be used in excess as this can also invoke feelings of sorrow and depression.
- Red - the colour of passion and strong feelings of threat, love or excess stimulus. In school rooms this can be used in combination with other colours, as this has been shown to help in detail oriented or repetitive tasks.
- Yellow - found to be the colour for happiness and sunshine for children. It stimulates intelligence and is ideal for use in kids' rooms, study rooms and play areas, however overuse can also produce feelings of stress in children.
- Green - used in abundance can relax and contribute to better health in children.
- Pink - a calming colour which is shown to lower heart rate.
- Purple - attention grabbing.
- Orange - many educational institutes use this colour as it is found to enhance critical thinking and memory. Test rooms in this colour are known to enhance performance in exams.
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