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Toddlers' Problem Solving: The Importance of Dynamic Integration

Gresham, Lori J.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1281459838

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2010, MA, University of Cincinnati, Arts and Sciences: Psychology.
Arguably, children's success in problem solving tasks depends on at least two factors: knowledge about the domain, and an ability to integrate the relevant information. The current study looks at the latter point; the importance of information integration. A search task was used in which toddlers perform surprisingly poorly; They cannot find a ball that rolls behind a screen and stops at a colorful wall that remains partially visible above the screen. Can performance be improved if children are aided in their integration of dynamic events? To answer this question the wall was modified in such a way as to help children integrate the wall with the dynamic event- the ball rolling behind the screen. Indeed, toddlers showed a significant improvement in performance with this modified version of the wall, compared to the original version of the wall. Control experiments rule out alternative explanations. As a whole, they point to the importance of considering a task’s demands on integration to explain children’s performance.
Adelheid Kloos, PhD (Committee Chair)
Guy Van Orden, PhD (Committee Member)
Sarah Cummins-Sebree, PhD (Committee Member)
Kevin Shockley, PhD (Committee Member)
26 p.
Cognitive Therapy
Problem Solving; Toddler; Search Task; Integration; Motion Cue

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  • Gresham, L. J. (2010). Toddlers' Problem Solving: The Importance of Dynamic Integration [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1281459838

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Gresham, Lori. Toddlers' Problem Solving: The Importance of Dynamic Integration. 2010. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1281459838.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Gresham, Lori. "Toddlers' Problem Solving: The Importance of Dynamic Integration." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1281459838

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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