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The Early Development Of Quantitative Cognition: Correspondences And One-Way Functions, Irvin Sam Schonfeld
The Early Development Of Quantitative Cognition: Correspondences And One-Way Functions, Irvin Sam Schonfeld
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This investigation was designed to examine the development of the child's capacity to make numerical and quantitative comparisons. It was hypothesized that the nature of the child's understanding of correspondences and one-way functions informs his capacity to compare arrays of decals and quantities of liquid. The relation of Piagetian operative level to the child's capacity to use crystallized skills, or solution aids (Cattell, 1963; Horn, 1968), in comparing arrays was also investigated.
A total of 171 children who ranged in age from four to seven years were administered numerical and liquid comparison tasks. The numerical tasks included paired arrays of …