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CONFLICT BETWEEN CUES IN NUMBER CONSERVATION TASKS
Author(s) -
Millar Carole,
Mackay C. K.
Publication year - 1980
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.2044-8279.1980.tb02446.x
Subject(s) - salient , psychology , row , social psychology , artificial intelligence , computer science , database
S ummary . Thirty primary school children, aged between 5 years 0 months and 5 years 11 months, were given number conservation tasks adapted from Bryant (1974). The tasks were at two levels, viz., within the children's subitising range and within their counting range. For the experimental group, elements of the two rows were joined by thread thus provoking a one‐to‐one correspondence across rows. The experimental group's performance was very significantly better than that of the control group thus supporting the view that, when one‐to‐one correspondence is a salient cue, young children can apply the principle of invariance effectively. A significant difference between performance at the subitising and counting levels is interpreted as support for the view that number invariance is initially developed for small numbers and then extended into the counting range.