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Troseth, Georgene L.; Pickard, Megan E. Bloom; Deloache, Judy S. – Developmental Science, 2007
Using a symbolic object such as a model as a source of information about something else requires some appreciation of the relation between the symbol and what it represents. Representational insight has been proposed as essential to success in a symbolic retrieval task in which children must use information from a hiding event in a scale model to…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Models, Knowledge Representation, Schematic Studies
Llorente, Juan Carlos – 1996
A study examined the strategies and processes used by a sample of 33 Argentinean adults with little school experience to solve problems and acquire knowledge at work. A Piagetian methodological approach was used to observe adults in building, rural, and domestic work settings and to analyze empirical data regarding their behavior in task-oriented…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy