Citation

Sowden S, Blades M. J. Genet. Psychol. 1994; 155(4): 493-502.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1994, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

7852985

Abstract

The discrepancy between children's performances on Brown and Murphy's (1975) and Piaget and Inhelder's (1956) studies of ordering tasks was investigated. Twenty-two 4-year-old children were asked to carry out a linear-ordering task that was based on Piaget and Inhelder's (1956) task in which children copied the arrangement of clothes on a clothesline. The type of instructions and the type of layout were varied. There was an effect for the type of layout (p < .01), but the children performed equally well irrespective of the instructions they were given, and overall they were very successful. The results support Brown and Murphy's findings that ability to reproduce a sequence in linear-ordering tasks is developed earlier than previous research has indicated.

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