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TEACHING PERSPECTIVE ABILITY TO FIVE‐YEAR‐OLDS
Author(s) -
COX M. V.
Publication year - 1977
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.2044-8279.1977.tb02360.x
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , task (project management) , psychology , transfer of learning , transfer of training , cognitive psychology , control (management) , transfer (computing) , perspective taking , mathematics education , developmental psychology , artificial intelligence , social psychology , computer science , management , empathy , parallel computing , economics
SUMMARY. Five‐year‐olds were individually trained in a structured programme of perspective problems. Compared with a control group (N=6), the children in the experimental group (N = 12) transferred their learning to both ‘near’ transfer tasks involving perspective‐taking and ‘far’ transfer tasks (other concrete operational tasks). Children trained in a matrices task (N=6) transferred their learning to other ‘near’ transfer tasks (related matrices problems), but failed to achieve higher scores than controls in the perspectives tasks. Therefore, perspective ability requires not only an operational level of thought, but also the specific skill of adopting another's viewpoint.