Egocentricity and Abstraction in Children and in Adult Aments

Prothro, E. Terry

doi:10.2307/1417899

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“…Whatever the reason, the results of this study tend to confirm those reported in the literature (I, 7,15,19,21,26). The various uses made of the sub-categories is an important consideration.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 90%

Developmental Trends in the Abstraction Ability of Children

Sigel¹

1953

Child Development

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 90%

Developmental Trends in the Abstraction Ability of Children

Sigel¹

1953

Child Development

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“…Grouping objects into classes is one of the simplest quantitative behaviors. Apparently the earliest comparative study of classification that bears on the similar structure hypothesis was the Prothro (1943) investigation. Prothro used three tasks that called for the child to sort objects into groups of things "that are just alike" or "that go together."…”

Section: Quantitative Concepts (Other Than Conservation)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Cognitive development in retarded and nonretarded persons: Piagetian tests of the similar structure hypothesis.

Weisz¹,

Yeates²

1981

Psychological Bulletin

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Proponents of "developmental" and "difference" theories of mental retardation have long debated the similar structure hypothesis. It holds that when nonorganically impaired retarded and nonretarded persons are similar in developmental level (operationally defined as mental age), they are also similar in the processes and concepts by which they reason. The developmental position endorses this hypothesis; the difference position opposes it. The hypothesis and the debate over its validity have been strongly influenced by Piaget's cognitive developmental theory. In this article we survey 30 studies involving 104 separate tests of the hypothesis with Piagetian conceptual measures. We distinguish between studies that did and did not meet an important procedural requirement: screening organically impaired subjects from their mentally retarded samples. Studies that did not meet this requirement yielded findings inconsistent with the similar structure hypothesis; retarded groups were significantly inferior to nonretarded groups matched on mental age. Studies that did meet the requirement, however, yielded findings supporting the hypothesis. This pattern of findings carries significant implications for the developmental versus difference controversy and for diagnosis and training of the mentally retarded.

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“…Piaget's questions exploring relativism (6, p. 98) have been slightly modified by others (4,7) to provide a quantitative estimate of egocentric thinking. The scale measures S's comprehension of the "brother" relationship (e.g., "There are three brothers in a family: John, Dick and Charles.…”

Section: Relativismmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These questions have been used by subsequent investigators (4,7) to derive a relativism scale which was used as a measure of egocentric thinking.…”

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