Measuring change: current trends and future directions in microgenetic research

Flynn, Emma; Siegler, Robert S.

doi:10.1002/icd.502

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“…Examining the transmission of behaviour and information across groups appears to be ripe for further exploration, as has been highlighted by Flynn & Siegler (2007). The next step appears to be an examination of young children's cultural transmission using open diffusion designs, in which a trained model and a task are introduced to a group of participants at the same time.…”

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Investigating children as cultural magnets: do young children transmit redundant information along diffusion chains?

Flynn

2008

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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The primary goal of this study was to investigate cultural transmission in young children, with specific reference to the phenomenon of overimitation. Diffusion chains were used to compare the imitation of 2-and 3-year-olds on a task in which the initial child in each chain performed a series of relevant and irrelevant actions on a puzzle box in order to retrieve a reward. Children in the chains witnessed the actions performed on one of two boxes, one which was transparent and so the lack of causality of the irrelevant actions was obvious, while the other was opaque and so the lack of causal relevance was not obvious. Unlike previous dyadic research in which children overimitate a model, the irrelevant actions were parsed out early in the diffusion chains. Even though children parsed out irrelevant actions, they showed fidelity to the method used to perform a relevant action both within dyads and across groups. This was true of 3-year-olds, and also 2-year-olds, therefore extending findings from previous research.

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Investigating children as cultural magnets: do young children transmit redundant information along diffusion chains?

Flynn

2008

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“…Hence, changes in reasoning can become visible closely to the moment they happen, thus enabling the discovery of natural developmental and learning trajectories. These trajectories may be considered natural if the practice sessions include no explicit forms of training, such as the provision of elaborate instructions or prompting (Flynn & Siegler, 2007;Siegler, 2006;Siegler & Crowley, 1991). In the present study we investigated whether problem solving trajectories involving analogy tasks showed differing pathways when these were acquired through more 'natural' unprompted opportunities than when a short training procedure is included.…”

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Progression paths in children’s problem solving: The influence of dynamic testing, initial variability, and working memory

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Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

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Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. Progression paths in children's problem solving:The influence of dynamic testing, initial variability and working-memory AbstractThe current study investigated developmental trajectories of analogical reasoning performance of 104 7-to-8-year-old children. We employed a microgenetic research method and multilevel analysis to examine the influence of several background variables and experimental treatment on the children's developmental trajectories. Our participants were divided into two treatment groups: repeated practice alone and repeated practice with training. Each child received an initial working-memory assessment, and was subsequently asked to solve figural analogies on each of several sessions. We examined children's analogical problem-solving behavior and their subsequent verbal accounts of their employed solving processes. We also investigated the influence of verbal and visual-spatial working-memory capacity and initial variability in strategyuse on analogical reasoning development. Results indicated that children in both treatment groups improved but gains were greater for those who had received training. Training also reduced the influence of children's initial variability in the use of analogical strategies with the degree of improvement in reasoning largely unrelated to working memory capacity. Findings from this study demonstrate the value of a microgenetic research method and the use of multilevel analysis to examine inter-and intra-individual change in problem-solving processes.

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“…(49,50) using frequent observations over an extended period of time in a small number of cases. These designs have the advantage of being immediately applicable to clinical practice by showing the process of change (as in the case of the daily ups and downs in this study) within and across cases, (51,52,53) although because of small sample size, they cannot prove that a method is effective for the population in general.…”

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Better or Worse: a Study of Day-to-Day Changes over Five Months of Rosen Method Bodywork Treatment for Chronic Low Back Pain

Fogel

2013

IJTMB

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Background: Fluctuations of good days and bad days-in physical symptoms and emotional states-are common for individuals with chronic illness. This pilot study examines these fluctuations during bodywork treatment.Purpose: We analyzed changes in daily selfreports over a period of five months for five individuals who received weekly treatments of Rosen Method Bodywork (RMB), which uses touch and words to enhance body awareness of physical sensations and emotional states.Subjects and Design: Five subjects (aged 31-56) who had chronic low back pain (CLBP) received 16 weekly treatments given by three experienced RMB practitioners.Measures: Pre-and posttreatment assessments covered demographics, disability, and pain. Clients also completed daily bedtime assessments of pain, fatigue, emotional state, and sense of control during the entire treatment period.Results: All clients reported reductions in pain and/or disability in post-compared to pretreatment. In spite of a high level of day-to-day variability in the daily assessments, there were significant reductions in pain and fatigue, and significant increases in positive emotional state and sense of control across the treatment period. In reaching this end, however, some clients had slow and steady improvements, some improved more rapidly, while others got worse before they got better.Conclusions: The natural course of healingwith its inevitable fluctuations in symptoms-is part of a process leading to successful treatment outcomes. Rosen Method Bodywork may be especially helpful in developing and accepting both sensory and emotional body awareness changes that facilitate overall improvement.KEY WORDS: Rosen Method Bodywork; chronic low back pain; pain; fatigue; emotion; sense of control iNTrODuCTiON Fluctuations of good days and bad days are common for individuals with chronic illness. (1,2) While these ups and downs are also likely to occur during treatment, there is relatively little research about this in any health care modality. This study examines day-to-day variability in the perception of physical sensation and emotional state, in a sample of five individuals with chronic low back pain (CLBP) across a period of five months in which they received 16 weekly sessions of Rosen Method Bodywork (RMB). Chronic Low Back painIt is estimated that 60%-80% of the population will experience CLBP over the life course. As many as 25% of individuals will not find relief from conventional treatments. (3,4) CLBP has both sensoryphysical and emotional symptoms. In addition to chronic pain and fatigue, individuals with CLBP show higher levels of anger, fear, despair, and lack a sense of control. (5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16) It is generally recognized that CLBP is a dynamic, fluctuating condition with multifactorial etiology and complex pathogenesis. Normally, mechanistic models for CLBP have tended to focus on the mechanicalsensory aspects of musculoskeletal tissues. Psychosocial factors contribute emotional distress in these patients from sources including job diss...

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Measuring change: current trends and future directions in microgenetic research

Cited by 34 publications

References 46 publications

Investigating children as cultural magnets: do young children transmit redundant information along diffusion chains?

Investigating children as cultural magnets: do young children transmit redundant information along diffusion chains?

Progression paths in children’s problem solving: The influence of dynamic testing, initial variability, and working memory

Better or Worse: a Study of Day-to-Day Changes over Five Months of Rosen Method Bodywork Treatment for Chronic Low Back Pain

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