TY - JOUR
AU - Eimas, Peter D.
AB - Gave children from Grades 2, 4, 6, and 8 and undergraduates a series of matrices in which the S's task was to determine which of n cells was the correct one. The matrices had either 8 or 16 cells and were of 3 distinct types: (a) all cells were filled with the same letter, O matrices; (b) all cells were filled with a number from 1-8 or 1-16, N matrices; and (c) all cells were filled with a unique stimulus pattern, obtained from the combination of 3 or 4 bivariate dimensions, CF martices. The dependent measures were expected information, frequency of categorical responses, and frequency of focusing solutions. All measures showed a reliable increase with increasing developmental level and with the most salient (CF) martices, with increasing saliency being defined as the increasing availability of categorical responses that can describe and partition the stimuli into equal subsets. Results are discussed in terms of L. Vygotsky's developmental model of thought and word meaning.
TI - Information processing in problem solving as a function of developmental level and stimulus saliency
JF - Developmental Psychology
DO - 10.1037/h0028746
DA - 1970-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/american-psychological-association/information-processing-in-problem-solving-as-a-function-of-be23DYfWDR
SP - 224
EP - 229
VL - 2
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -