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PROBLEM‐SOLVING STRATEGIES OF YOUNG CHILDREN
Author(s) -
Woodward W. Mary
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1972.tb01114.x
Subject(s) - psychology , sequence (biology) , interpolation (computer graphics) , cognition , miller , action (physics) , repetition (rhetorical device) , point (geometry) , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , artificial intelligence , computer science , mathematics , psychiatry , motion (physics) , geometry , quantum mechanics , biology , ecology , linguistics , philosophy , genetics , physics
SUMMARY A complex problem, consisting of 12 graded elements, was presented to normal children of 1 1/2–5 yr and to severely subnormal children, in order to attempt to elucidate some aspects of early cognitive development. Strategies adopted have been analysed in terms of the plan and TOTE unit concepts proposed by Miller et al. It is suggested that an early phase when a repetitive behavioural sequence is directed towards an externally given end‐point, is followed by one in which the sequence is terminated at the appropriate point by the interpolation of a manipulative, or observing action after each repetition.