Social context influences planning ahead in three-year-olds

Gerson, Sarah ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8710-1178, Bekkering, Harold and Hunnius, Sabine 2016. Social context influences planning ahead in three-year-olds. Cognitive Development 40 , pp. 120-131. 10.1016/j.cogdev.2016.08.010

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Abstract

Children’s joint action and advance planning skills are both undergoing development during the preschool years, but little is known about how joint action contexts influence children’s advance planning. In the first experiment, three-year-olds (N = 32) were better at planning ahead for a task in an individual compared to a joint condition when playing with a social partner. A second experiment indicated that three-year-olds (N = 32) were as able to plan in advance with a non-social machine as when playing alone, suggesting that the effects found in the first experiment were not a function of different timing or cognitive demands between individual and joint conditions, but were unique to the social context.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Dentistry Psychology
Subjects:	R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Problem solving; Social cognition; Advance planning; Preschoolers; Cognitive development; Social context
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	0885-2014
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	26 September 2016
Date of Acceptance:	28 August 2016
Last Modified:	06 May 2023 05:55
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/94911

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