Representation of Numerical and Non-Numerical Order in Children

Autor/inn/en	Berteletti, Ilaria; Lucangeli, Daniela; Zorzi, Marco
Titel	Representation of Numerical and Non-Numerical Order in Children
Quelle	In: Cognition, 124 (2012) 3, S.304-313 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0010-0277
DOI	10.1016/j.cognition.2012.05.015
Schlagwörter	Grade 3; Investigations; Preschool Education; Task Analysis; Spatial Ability; Cognitive Mapping; Sequential Learning; Cognitive Development; Age Differences; Children; Cognitive Processes; Mathematics Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? School year 03; 3. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 03; Untersuchung; Pre-school education; Vorschulerziehung; Aufgabenanalyse; Räumliches Vorstellungsvermögen; Didaktische Sequenzierung; Lernsequenz; Kognitive Entwicklung; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Child; Kind; Kinder; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Mathematische Bildung
Abstract	The representation of numerical and non-numerical ordered sequences was investigated in children from preschool to grade 3. The child's conception of how sequence items map onto a spatial scale was tested using the Number-to-Position task (Siegler & Opfer, 2003) and new variants of the task designed to probe the representation of the alphabet (i.e., letter sequence) and the calendar year (i.e., month sequence). The representation of non-numerical order showed the same developmental pattern previously observed for numerical representation, with a logarithmic mapping in the youngest children and a shift to linear mapping in older children. Although the individual ability to position non-numerical items was related to the child's knowledge of the sequence, a significant amount of unique variance was explained by her type of number-line representation. These results suggest that the child's conception of numerical order is generalized to non-numerical sequences and that the concept of linearity is acquired in the numerical domain first and progressively extended to all ordinal sequences. (Contains 3 figures and 5 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10