Science with Duplo: Multilevel goal management in preschoolers’ toy house constructions
| Autor: | Lisanne Schröer, Richard P. Cooper, Denis Mareschal |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Clinical Child and Family Studies |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Movement Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Plan (drawing) Structuring Motion capture 050105 experimental psychology Task (project management) Executive Function Developmental and Educational Psychology Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Function (engineering) Child media_common Hierarchy 05 social sciences Executive functions Hand Inhibition Psychological Action (philosophy) Child Preschool Psychology Goals 050104 developmental & child psychology Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Experimental Child Psychology Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 206(105067):105067. Academic Press |
| ISSN: | 0022-0965 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jecp.2020.105067 |
| Popis: | Executing goal-directed action sequences is fundamental to our behavior. Planning and controlling these action sequences improves greatly over the preschool years. In this study, we examined preschoolers’ ability to plan action sequences. A total of 69 3- to 5-year-olds were assessed on an action sequence planning task with a hierarchical goal structure and on several executive function tasks. Planning abilities improved with age. Improvements in inhibition were related to avoidance of actions irrelevant to the goal hierarchy. Updating skill appears to be associated with executing actions relevant to different subgoals. Using optical motion capture, we showed that children who followed the subgoals displayed less movement with their nonreaching hand within a subgoal. This effect was enhanced in children with better inhibitory skills, suggesting that such skills allow greater focus on executing the current subgoal. Thus, we provide evidence that structuring of subgoals in action sequence planning emerges during the preschool years and that improvements in performance in action sequence planning are related to executive functions. |
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