Remembering and constructing an order.

B Blevins-Knabe

doi:10.1080/00221325.1987.10532484

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Remembering and constructing an order.

B Blevins-Knabe

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The purpose of this study was to determine whether children who could recognize a linear order would be able to use this recognition to answer new questions about the linear order. Three-, 4-, 5-, and 6-year-old children were trained to choose a series over a nonseries, a series over a series ordered in the opposite direction, or one nonseries over another nonseries. They were also given a standard seriation task. Children could recognize a series before being able to construct one, but recognition of a series was not correlated with construction of a series. Although children did not use the linear order to construct a series, they could use it to make choices between two similar stimuli, only one of which contained a feature identical to the linear order. The comparison between seriation and recognition of one nonseries over another revealed that performance on these two tasks was correlated and that one common feature between them was systematicity, which occurred either in searching for relationships or constructing them.

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B Blevins-Knabe. 1987. Remembering and constructing an order.. https://doi.org/10.1080/00221325.1987.10532484

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