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The Distancing Hypothesis: A Hypothesis Crucial to the Development of Representational Competence.
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Sigel, Irving – 1968
Representational competence refers to the individual's capability to respond appropriately to external representations. For example, a child engaged in a grouping task may collect together all like objects even if the group contains varying representations of the object, including (1) the object itself, (2) a three-dimensional likeness of the…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Associative Learning, Child Development, Classification