Mental strategies,mental capacity,and instruction: A neo-Piagetian investigation |
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Authors: | Robbie Case |
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Institution: | University of California-Berkeley USA |
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Abstract: | Pascual-Leone's neo-Piagetian theory of development was used to predict the pre- and postinstruction distributions of scores on a subject-controlled digit placement task as a function of three parameters: (1) the mental strategy which subjects attempted to apply, (2) the demand which attempting to apply this strategy placed on their mental capacity, and (3) the maximum mental capacity which they were capable of mobilizing. The predicted and obtained distributions corresponded quite closely for each kind of strategy at each age level sampled (6, 8, and 10). The discussion focused on the methodological and analytic requirements which must be met if the same approach is to be applied to making successful predictions in more naturalistic paradigms. |
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Keywords: | Requests for reprints should be sent to the author: Division of Educational Psychology School of Education University of California Berkeley 94720 |
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