Three experiments were performed in an attempt to integrate ideas and methods developed to study problem solving with those developed specifically to study children's inquiry strategies. (Author/JMB)

Reflective and impulsive children were instructed to hasten or delay their responses on a test of hypothesis-seeking and constraint seeking conceptual strategies. Latency of response data on pretesting, training, and immediate posttests showed that the attempts to hasten or delay responses were successful in changing response latencies. (ST)