Setting Goals to Switch between Tasks: Effect of Cue Transparency on Children's Cognitive Flexibility

Autor/inn/en	Chevalier, Nicolas; Blaye, Agnes
Titel	Setting Goals to Switch between Tasks: Effect of Cue Transparency on Children's Cognitive Flexibility
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 45 (2009) 3, S.782-797 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/a0015409
Schlagwörter	Cues; Inner Speech (Subvocal); Goal Orientation; Experiments; Children; Memory; Visual Stimuli; Adults + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Stichwort; Inneres Sprechen; Zielorientierung; Zielvorstellung; Erprobung; Child; Kind; Kinder; Gedächtnis
Abstract	Three experiments examined the difficulty of translating cues into verbal representations of task goals by varying the degree of cue transparency (auditory transparent cues, visual transparent cues, visual arbitrary cues) in the Advanced Dimensional Change Card Sort, which requires switching between color- and shape-sorting rules on the basis of cues. Experiment 1 showed that 5- and 6-year-old children's performance improved as a function of cue transparency. Experiment 2 yielded the same pattern of results and showed that cue transparency effects cannot be accounted for by cue format only. Finally, Experiment 3 examined the effect of cue transparency in 7- and 9-year-olds and adults. The effect decreased over age for accuracy performance but not for latencies, suggesting that under some conditions, the difficulty of cue translation can still be observed in individuals whose inner speech is efficient. Overall, these findings showed that goal setting substantially contributes to children's flexible behaviors and continues to influence adults' performance. (Contains 5 figures, 1 table, and 3 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10