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Doherty, Martin J., Wimmer, Marina C., Gollek, Cornelia, Stone, Charlotte and Robinson, Elizabeth J. (2021) Piecing together the puzzle of pictorial representation : how jigsaw puzzles index metacognitive development. Child Development, 92 (1). pp. 205-221. doi:10.1111/cdev.13391 ISSN 0009-3920.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13391
Abstract
Jigsaw puzzles are ubiquitous developmental toys in Western societies, used here to examine the development of metarepresentation. For jigsaw puzzles this entails understanding that individual pieces, when assembled, produce a picture. In Experiment 1, 3- to 5-year-olds (N = 117) completed jigsaw puzzles that were normal, had no picture, or comprised noninterlocking rectangular pieces. Pictorial puzzle completion was associated with mental and graphical metarepresentational task performance. Guide pictures of completed pictorial puzzles were not useful. In Experiment 2, 3- to 4-year-olds (N = 52) completed a simplified task, to choose the correct final piece. Guide-use associated with age and specifically graphical metarepresentation performance. We conclude that the pragmatically natural measure of jigsaw puzzle completion ability demonstrates general and pictorial metarepresentational development at 4 years.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GV Recreation Leisure L Education > LB Theory and practice of education R Medicine > RJ Pediatrics |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Jigsaw puzzles, Jigsaw puzzles -- Psychological aspects, Play assessment (Child psychology), Child psychology, Child development, Metacognition in children | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Child Development | ||||||
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc. | ||||||
ISSN: | 0009-3920 | ||||||
Official Date: | 25 January 2021 | ||||||
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Volume: | 92 | ||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 205-221 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1111/cdev.13391 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 30 August 2022 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 31 August 2022 | ||||||
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