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He, Wei; Yang, Yingying; Gao, Dingguo – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2018
There have been mixed results in studies investigating proportional reasoning in young children. The current study aimed to examine whether providing visual scaling cues and structuring the reasoning process can improve proportional reasoning in 5- to 6-year-old children. In a series of computerized tasks, children compared the sweetness of 2…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Young Children, Task Analysis, Evaluative Thinking
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Carrico, Renee L. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2013
The current study examined the role of increased attentional load in 24 month-old children's multistep problem-solving behavior. Children solved an object-based nonspatial working-memory search task, to which a motor component of varying difficulty was added. Significant disruptions in search performance were observed with the introduction of the…
Descriptors: Attention, Problem Solving, Toddlers, Task Analysis