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Direct linkBreyel, Sabine; Pauen, Sabina – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2023
The current study examined children's spontaneous private speech during the vertical and the horizontal Tube Task to shed light on the cognitive, motivational, and emotional processes underlying tool innovation. Tool innovation is defined as solving a novel problem by using or modifying objects in a new and useful way without prior instructions.…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Problem Solving, Cognitive Processes, Emotional Response
Bambha, Valerie P.; Beckner, Aaron G.; Shetty, Nikita; Voss, Annika T.; Xie, Jinlin; Yiu, Eunice; LoBue, Vanessa; Oakes, Lisa M.; Casasola, Marianella – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2022
Spatial play in early childhood is associated with a variety of spatial and cognitive skills. However, these associations are often derived from studies in which different tasks are used across different age ranges, leaving open the question of how children's natural behaviors during spatial play develop from infancy into the early preschool…
Descriptors: Child Development, Object Manipulation, Psychomotor Skills, Problem Solving
Solis, S. Lynneth; Curtis, Kaley N.; Hayes-Messinger, Amani – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2017
Researchers propose that experiencing and manipulating physical principles through objects allows young children to formulate scientific intuitions that may serve as precursors to learning in STEM subjects. This may be especially true when children discover these physical principles through object affordances during play. The present study…
Descriptors: Play, STEM Education, Preschool Children, Naturalistic Observation
Boncoddo, Rebecca; Dixon, James A.; Kelley, Elizabeth – Developmental Science, 2010
Recent work in embodied cognition has proposed that representations and actions are inextricably linked. The current study examines a developmental account of this relationship. Specifically, we propose that children's actions are foundational for novel representations. Thirty-two preschoolers, aged 3.4 to 5.7 years, were asked to solve a set of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Preschool Children, Simulation, Problem Solving
Peer reviewedGoodman, Sherryl Hope – Child Development, 1981
Results of a study of 38 preschool children observed and videotaped during performance on a jigsaw-puzzle task indicate that puzzle solutions accompanied by a high rate of verbalizations were judged as more proficient, solved with a high rate of puzzle-solving moves, and completed in a shorter period of time. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Child Language, Object Manipulation, Oral Language, Preschool Children
Vandenberg, Brian – 1978
This experiment investigates the relation of a free play experience to subsequent performance on problem solving tasks among children aged 4 to 10. Ninety children were divided into 3 age groups and were assigned in pairs of free play and non-play treatment conditions. Children were paired by block design test scores to control for perceptual…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Development, Elementary School Students, Object Manipulation
