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CULTURE, COUNTING AND NUMBER CONSERVATION
Author(s) -
Saxe Geoffrey B.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
international journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.75
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1464-066X
pISSN - 0020-7594
DOI - 10.1080/00207598308247482
Subject(s) - replicate , new guinea , psychology , reproduction , social psychology , statistics , sociology , ethnology , ecology , biology , mathematics
Children from 3 remote village populations in Papua New Guinea were administered notational counting and number conservation tasks. The results replicate previous research conducted in the United States that shows children develop the use of counting to mediate the comparison and reproduction of sets prior to understanding number conservation. The significance of these findings is discussed with respect to current models of number development.