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Why Won't You Do What I Want? The Informative Failures of Children and Models
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Chatham, Christopher H.; Yerys, Benjamin E.; Munakata, Yuko – Cognitive Development, 2012
Computational models are powerful tools--too powerful, according to some. We argue that the idea that models can "do anything" is wrong, and we describe how their failures have been informative. We present new work showing surprising diversity in the effects of feedback on children's task-switching, such that some children perseverate despite this…
Descriptors: Failure, Computation, Models, Neurology
What Is the Target?
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Bloch, Henriette – Child Development, 2000
Notes that the Piagetian perspective admits the existence of interindividual differences but interprets them as noise masking the universal logical succession of structures, whereas the differential perspective views development as consisting of "vicarious processes." Asserts that the main aim of the "procedural studies"…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages, Developmental Tasks
The Development of Children's Rule Use on the Balance Scale Task.
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Jansen, Brenda R. J.; van der Maas, Han L. J. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2002
The use of rules on nonverbal balance scale problems was studied among 5- to 19-year-olds. Latent class analyses indicated that children used rules, that different rules were used by children of different ages, and that both consistent and inconsistent rule use occurred. A model for the development of reasoning about the balance scale task was…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Development
Evidence for the Phase Transition from Rule I to Rule II on the Balance Scale Task.
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Jansen, Brenda R. J.; Van der Maas, Han L. J. – Developmental Review, 2001
Two experiments used a formal model of developmental discontinuity derived from catastrophe theory to test whether the transition from Rule I to Rule II on the balance scale task proceeds discontinuously from ages 6 to 10, focusing on five catastrophe flags. Found that bimodality, inaccessible region, hysteresis, and sudden jump were clearly…
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Cognitive Development, Developmental Continuity
Stability and Change in Longitudinal Water-Level Task Performance.
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Thomas, Hoben; Lohaus, Arnold; Kessler, Thomas – Developmental Psychology, 1999
Three samples of 8- to 16-year olds were assessed three times at yearly intervals on eight water-level items. Within-child change over age was viewed as stochastic process of the child changing or remaining in one of three latent strategy states. Although there was improvement in task performance over age, the general finding was that strategy…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Development
Hierarchical Complexity of Tasks Shows the Existence of Developmental Stages.
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Commons, Michael Lamport; Trudeau, Edward James; Stein, Sharon Anne; Richards, Francis Asbury; Krause, Sharon R. – Developmental Review, 1998
Discusses hierarchical complexity of tasks as a way of conceptualizing information in terms of the power required to complete a task, and its implications for developmental psychology and information science. Provides an analytic solution to the definition of developmental stages and allows for the possibility within the science of scaling the…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Definitions