Developmental Change in Strategies for Weight Seriation, from Perceptual Operations to Transitive Inferences

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  • 知覚的判断から推移律判断にもとづく系列化への変化過程 : 重さ課題を用いて
  • チカクテキ ハンダン カラ スイイ リツ ハンダン ニ モトヅク ケイレツカ エ ノ ヘンカ カテイ オモサ カダイ オ モチイテ

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This study examined developmental changes in transitive inferences by analyzing strategies for solving a weight seriation task. Participants (134 children ages 5-12 years, and 17 university students) performed under two experimental conditions. In Condition A, participants could use kinetic perceptual cues. In Condition B, participants were not allowed to use such cues, and therefore could only employ formal transitive inferences. The results clarified the change between the stage of perceptual operations to the stage of using formal transitive inferences. Seven-year olds could solve the task in Condition A, but only children from age 12 were able to solve the task in Condition B. In addition, to employ a formal transitive inference participants had to compare elements in two forms (lighter and heavier) with a fixed anchor. Finally, university students selected from a variety of strategies for different tasks. These results were consistent with the overlapping waves model (Siegler, 1996).

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