Tower of London: Problem Parameters and Error Analysis in 5-year-old children from unsatisfied Basic Needs Homes

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Título

Tower of London: Problem Parameters and Error Analysis in 5-year-old children from unsatisfied Basic Needs Homes

Autor(es)

Giovannetti, Federico; Pietto, Marcos Luis; Segretin, María Soledad; Lipina, Sebastián Javier

Afiliación(es) del/de los autor(es)

Giovannetti, Federico. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Parque Centenario. CEMIC-CONICET. Centro de Educaciones Médicas e Investigaciones Clínicas "Norberto Quirno". CEMIC-CONICET; Argentina
Pietto, Marcos Luis. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Parque Centenario. CEMIC-CONICET. Centro de Educaciones Médicas e Investigaciones Clínicas "Norberto Quirno". CEMIC-CONICET; Argentina
Segretin, María Soledad. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Parque Centenario. CEMIC-CONICET. Centro de Educaciones Médicas e Investigaciones Clínicas "Norberto Quirno". CEMIC-CONICET; Argentina
Lipina, Sebastián Javier. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Parque Centenario. CEMIC-CONICET. Centro de Educaciones Médicas e Investigaciones Clínicas "Norberto Quirno". CEMIC-CONICET; Argentina

Resumen

Planning can be defined as a procedure aimed at achieving a determined goal or solving a problem. Tower of London task (TOL) is one of the most used cognitive tasks for measuring successful cognitive planning. However, error analysis of TOL was not studied enough in child samples. In the present study, a TOL task was administered to a sample of preschoolers from poor homes. The current study aims to analyse the influence of different problem parameters on TOL’s performance. Such analyses include assessing the number of correctly solved problems, the time required to solve them, and children’s behaviour in incorrectly solved problems. Results showed that, while in correctly solved problems, only planning times showed statistically significant differences between with different problem parameters; in incorrect trials, movement times might also be relevant. Different patterns of response time results could show qualitatively different processes in correct and incorrectly solved problems. Higher planning times in correctly solved trials might evidence a pre-planning or look-ahead processing, while higher error movement times in incorrectly solved trials might show a more online-planning process. In conclusion, this study could show the relevance of looking at both correct and incorrect solutions to planning problems, revealing important differences in planning processes and strategies applied by children in order to accomplish a determined goal.

Año de publicación

2024

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inglés

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Clasificación temática de acuerdo a la FORD

Psicología y ciencias cognitivas

Condiciones de uso

Disponible en acceso abierto bajo licencia Creative Commons https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ar/

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CONICET Digital (CONICET) - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

Identificador de proyecto

Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Productiva. Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica. Fondo para la Investigación Científica y Tecnológica/PICT 2014-0500