Inhibitory control in number-conservation and class-inclusion tasks: A neo-Piagetian inter-task priming study |
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Authors: | Grégoire Borst Nicolas Poirel Arlette Pineau Mathieu Cassotti Olivier Houdé |
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Institution: | 1. CNRS Unit 3521, Paris-Descartes University and Caen University, France;2. Institut Universitaire de France, France;3. Centre de gestion scientifique, Mines ParisTech, France |
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Abstract: | We investigated whether success in number-conservation and class-inclusion tasks relies on a general ability to inhibit misleading strategies. Two groups of 10-year-olds performed inter-task priming between computerized versions of class-inclusion and number-conservation tasks (Experiment 1). In one group, the class-inclusion task served as a prime and the number-conservation task as an assessment probe and vice versa in the other group. Response times were shorter in the number-conservation task when performed after the class-inclusion task (and vice versa in the other group) than in control prime-probe sequences in which the primes did not require the inhibition of a misleading strategy. Experiment 2 showed that these inter-task priming effects did not simply reflect that class inclusion and number conservation rely on the reversibility of concrete operations as Piaget would have hypothesized. Taken together the results are consistent with the neo-Piagetian assumption that cognitive development is rooted in both the acquisition of knowledge of incremental complexity and the ability to resist (inhibit) previous knowledge. Critically, the present finding suggests that the inhibitory ability is not domain- or strategy-specific. |
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Keywords: | Cognitive development Class inclusion Number conservation Inhibition Reversibility |
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