Young Children's Analogical Reasoning across Cultures: Similarities and Differences

Autor/inn/en	Richland, Lindsey Engle; Chan, Tsz-Kit; Morrison, Robert G.; Au, Terry Kit-Fong
Titel	Young Children's Analogical Reasoning across Cultures: Similarities and Differences
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 105 (2010) 1-2, S.146-153 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-0965
DOI	10.1016/j.jecp.2009.08.003
Schlagwörter	Cross Cultural Studies; Semantics; Young Children; Cultural Differences; Logical Thinking; Foreign Countries; Thinking Skills; Preschool Children; Cognitive Processes; Task Analysis; Inhibition; Hong Kong + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Cultural comparison; Kulturvergleich; Semantik; Frühe Kindheit; Kultureller Unterschied; Ausland; Denkfähigkeit; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Aufgabenanalyse; Hemmung; Hongkong
Abstract	A cross-cultural comparison between U.S. and Hong Kong preschoolers examined factors responsible for young children's analogical reasoning errors. On a scene analogy task, both groups had adequate prerequisite knowledge of the key relations, were the same age, and showed similar baseline performance, yet Chinese children outperformed U.S. children on more relationally complex problems. Children from both groups were highly susceptible to choosing a perceptual or semantic distractor during reasoning when one was present. Taken together, these similarities and differences suggest that (a) cultural differences can facilitate better knowledge representations by allowing more efficient processing of relationally complex problems and (b) inhibitory control is an important factor in explaining the development of children's analogical reasoning. (Contains 1 figure and 1 table.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10