Relationships between procedural rigidity and interrepresentational change in children's drawing behavior
Catégorie
Journal Article
Auteurs
Picard, D., Vinter, A.
Année
2007
Titre
Relationships between procedural rigidity and interrepresentational change in children's drawing behavior
Journal / Livre / Conférence
Child Development
Résumé
The present experiments were aimed at testing Karmiloff- Smith's (1992) assumption that representational flexibility in drawing behavior requires the relaxation of a sequential constraint. A total of two hundred and forty 5- to 9-year-old children produced cross-category drawings (e.g., a house with wings) in 4 conditions. The results indicated that procedural rigidity declined as representational change improved. The decline in procedural rigidity occurred before representational change attained its highest level. This decline was related to a greater ability to manage early interruptions of the procedures, not to a greater ability to modify the usual feature sequencing. It was concluded that rigidity in routine development could act as a sequential constraint on interrepresentational change.
Issue
2
Volume
78
Pages
522-541