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Very Young Children's Acquisition of Systematic Problem-solving Strategies.
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Richards, D. Dean; Siegler, Robert S. – Child Development, 1981
Identified some experiences that lead to preschool children's transition from less to more systematic problem-solving strategies. Receiving encouragement to adopt more analytic attitudes and encountering problems with perceptually salient differences on a relevant dimension were the two types of experiences examined. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Convergent Thinking, Critical Thinking, Experiential Learning
Children's Thinking about Counterfactuals and Future Hypotheticals as Possibilities
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Beck, Sarah R.; Robinson, Elizabeth J.; Carroll, Daniel J.; Apperly, Ian A. – Child Development, 2006
Two experiments explored whether children's correct answers to counter factual and future hypothetical questions were based on an understanding of possibilities. Children played a game in which a toy mouse could run down either 1 of 2 slides. Children found it difficult to mark physically both possible outcomes, compared to reporting a single…
Descriptors: Educational Experiments, Child Development, Young Children, Probability
The Effects of Play on Convergent and Divergent Problem Solving.
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Pepler, Debra J.; Ross, Hildy S. – Child Development, 1981
Two experiments were conducted to examine behaviors that characterize play with convergent and divergent materials and the effects of play on convergent and divergent problem solving among 64 3- and 4-year-olds. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Convergent Thinking, Divergent Thinking, Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries