The
Developmental Change of Successive Information Processing in Preschool
Children--Planning or Simultaneous Synthesis?
Y. Takeuchi |
The
purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between the
number conservation task and the successive information tasks (digit-span
and Knox-Cubes) in preschool children. The latters were classified
in two types of processing; forward (maintaining) type and backward
(transformational) type. The suggestions of the results were as follows:
(1) backward type successive information tasks had a stronger relation
to the conservation task than forward type, and (2) the common function
between the backward type tasks and the conservation task was not
a spatial ability, but an ability to transform information. Information
integration in preschoolers was discussed in relation to Das's information
processing model and it was supposed that to transform information
was one of the planning functions at frontal lobe of human brain.
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