Children's
Conservation and Learning Based on Identity Relation
T. Sugimura |
Based
on the performance on the number-conservation task, kindergarten
children were divided into conservers and nonconservers. They learned
the identity relation on the task with number or form dimension and
then transferred from the number to the form task or vice versa.
For the number task the conservers learned faster the identity relation
anal used more frequently the win-stay strategy than the nonconservers.
The findings suggest that the relationship between the conservational
level and the identity learning is task-specific rather than general
in nature. The number of the subjects who showed perfect transfer
suggests that the conservers acquired the identity relation more
strongly than the nonconservers.
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