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QUESTIONS CHILDREN ASK ABOUT SPATIAL ARRAYS: AN ANALYSIS OF THE PROCESSES INVOLVED IN CO‐ORDINATING PERSPECTIVES
Author(s) -
EISER CHRISTINE
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1976.tb02313.x
Subject(s) - psychology , perspective (graphical) , coding (social sciences) , orientation (vector space) , relation (database) , ask price , social psychology , sociology , computer science , artificial intelligence , social science , data mining , mathematics , geometry , economy , economics
S ummary . Strategies used to co‐ordinate perspectives were investigated using a modification of Mosher and Hornby's ‘twenty questions’ technique. By asking ‘yes/no’ questions, children (N=75) attempted to predict the viewpoint of another, in order to match it to their own perspective of a duplicate array. In coding these questions, it was found that most children asked about the orientation of objects, rather than their positions . Although those asking position questions performed better than those asking orientation at grade 3, there was no relation between strategy and success at grade 7. The results are discussed in relation to inconsistencies in the literature regarding age differences in the co‐ordination of perspectives.