The Child's Understanding of Correspondence Relations

A number of quantitative comparison tasks were designed to tap knowledge of injective and surjective correspondences, one-directional compositions (greater + greater yields greater), countervailing compositions (greater + lesser yields ?), and length-density relations in 4- to 7-year-olds. The resul...

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Published in:Developmental psychology 1990-01, Vol.26 (1), p.94-102
Main Author: Schonfeld, Irvin Sam
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biological and medical sciences
Child development
Cognitive Development
Conservation (Concept)
Developmental psychology
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Human
Piagetian Tasks
Psychology
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Social research
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Summary:A number of quantitative comparison tasks were designed to tap knowledge of injective and surjective correspondences, one-directional compositions (greater + greater yields greater), countervailing compositions (greater + lesser yields ?), and length-density relations in 4- to 7-year-olds. The results indicated that performance on the comparison tasks was related to performance on a number conservation test as well as to age. Nonconservers performed at better than chance levels on tasks that tapped an elementary knowledge of injective and surjective correspondences; concrete-operational children, however, tended perform better on all tasks. Uncorrected and disattenuated correlation coefficients revealed considerable consistency across measures. Factor analyses, with and without age included, yielded a unitary factor. An explanation of the results based on perceptual salience was ruled out.
ISSN:0012-1649
1939-0599
DOI:10.1037/0012-1649.26.1.94