Re: expecting exits from tunnels

From: Ellice Forman (ellice+@pitt.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 29 2001 - 07:55:16 PST


i agree with mike,
Donaldson's book deals with conservation tasks (for children 3-6 years) and
the tunnel task is a sensori-motor task (for children younger than 2 yrs).
ellice forman

--On Wednesday, March 28, 2001, 9:06 PM -0800 Mike Cole
<mcole@weber.ucsd.edu> wrote:r

>
> bill and others. I doubt if you will find evidence concerning the
> experiments that Bill asked about. I believe trevarthan, not Piaget was
> their author, but I could be wrong. I do not believe that these
> experiments have been submitted to the same kinds of critical examination
> as, for example, conservations studies. Nor do I think that they have
> been replicated in the past many years. A worth while project would be to
> seek to replicate them.
>
> I would be delighted to be wrong in my guesses here. but I'll be a donut
> that you will not find he specific experiments named by bill in the
> Donaldson book.
> mike
>

Ellice Ann Forman
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University of Pittsburgh
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