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Direct linkWhiten, Andrew; Flynn, Emma; Brown, Katy; Lee, Tanya – Developmental Science, 2006
To provide the first systematic test of whether young children will spontaneously perceive and imitate hierarchical structure in complex actions, a task was devised in which a set of 16 elements can be modelled through either of two different, hierarchically organized strategies. Three-year-old children showed a strong and significant tendency to…
Descriptors: Tests, Teaching Methods, Preschool Children, Task Analysis
