Children's understanding of number is similar to adults' and rats': numerical estimation by 5--7-year-olds
| Autor: | Gavin Huntley-Fenner |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
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Linguistics and Language Cognitive Neuroscience Qualitative evidence Concept Formation Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Language Development Language and Linguistics Standard deviation Developmental psychology Random order Statistics Developmental and Educational Psychology Reaction Time Animals Humans Child Problem Solving Estimation Age differences Awareness Degree (music) Numero sign Rats Pattern Recognition Visual Child Preschool Numerical estimation Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Cognition. 78(3) |
| ISSN: | 0010-0277 |
| Popis: | Adult number representations can belong to either of two types. One is discrete, language-specific, and culturally-derived; the other is analog and language-independent. Quantitative evidence is presented to demonstrate that analog number representations are adult-like in young children. Five- to 7-year-olds accurately estimated rapidly presented groups of 5--11 items. Groups were presented in random order and random arrangements controlling for overall area. Children's data were qualitatively, and to some degree quantitatively, similar to adult data with one exception: the ratio of the standard deviation of estimates to mean estimates decreased with age. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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