Freedom to Manipulate Objects and Question-Asking Performance of Six-Year-Olds.

Torrance, E. Paul

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ERIC Number: EJ029217

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Publication Date: 1970

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Freedom to Manipulate Objects and Question-Asking Performance of Six-Year-Olds

Torrance, E. Paul

Young Children, 26, 2, 93-97, Dec '70

An experiment with 66 six-year-old children showed that children asked more and better questions about unfamiliar objects (toys) when they had been given an opportunity to manipulate them than when they saw only demonstrations of the toys. (NH)

Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Kindergarten Children, Object Manipulation, Questioning Techniques, Sensory Experience, Stimuli, Tactual Perception

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