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On Tool Use, Perseveration and Task Dynamics
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Lockman, Jeffrey L. – Infancy, 2008
For many decades, tool use has been viewed primarily as a cognitive achievement, an ability that separates not only adults and older children from infants, but humans from virtually all other species. According to this standard account, tool use and associated means-ends behaviors are dependent on symbolic or representational thinking. Organisms…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Object Manipulation, Behavior, Individual Differences