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Borst, Gregoire; Poirel, Nicolas; Pineau, Arlette; Cassotti, Mathieu; Houde, Olivier – Cognitive Development, 2012
We investigated whether success in number-conservation and class-inclusion tasks relies on a general ability to inhibit misleading strategies. Two groups of 10-year-olds performed inter-task priming between computerized versions of class-inclusion and number-conservation tasks (Experiment 1). In one group, the class-inclusion task served as a…
Descriptors: Priming, Cognitive Development, Inhibition, Numbers
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McGuigan, Nicola; Whiten, Andrew; Flynn, Emma; Horner, Victoria – Cognitive Development, 2007
We investigated whether the tendency to imitate or emulate is influenced by the availability of causal information, and the amount of information available in a display. Three and 5-year-old children were shown by either a live or video model how to obtain a reward from either a clear or an opaque puzzle box. Some of the actions in the sequence…
Descriptors: Imitation, Prior Learning, Modeling (Psychology), Cognitive Structures