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Corriveau, Kathleen H.; Harris, Paul L. – Developmental Psychology, 2010
Three- and 4-year-old children were asked to judge which of a set of 3 lines was the longest, both independently and in the face of an inaccurate consensus among adult informants. Children were invariably accurate when making independent judgments but sometimes deferred to the inaccurate consensus. Nevertheless, the deference displayed by both age…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, North Americans, Children, Preschool Children
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Sleeman, D. H. – International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 1975
Paper discusses in some detail the design of a problem-solving monitor and includes an annotated student protocol and the corresponding problem-solving graph. (Author)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Conflict Resolution, Deduction, Problem Solving
Holmes, Heather A. – 1997
This study examined the relationship between children's gender-typed conversational styles and joint problem-solving performance. Sixty preschool children between 4 and 5 1/2 years completed three problems with a same-sex or opposite-sex peer. Two structured tasks, copying a Tinkertoy model and stringing beads; and one unstructured task, building…
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Cooperation, Interpersonal Communication, Performance Factors