학술논문

What changes in children's drawing procedures? Relational complexity as a constraint on representational redescription
Document Type
Journal Article
Source
Phillips, S. and Halford, G. S. and Wilson, W. H. (1998) What changes in children's drawing procedures? Relational complexity as a constraint on representational redescription. [Journal (Paginated)]
Subject
Psychology: Cognitive Psychology
Computer Science: Complexity Theory
Computer Science: Neural Nets
Psychology: Developmental Psychology
Cognitive Psychology
Complexity Theory
Neural Nets
Developmental Psychology
Language
Abstract
Children's ability to modify their drawing procedures changes in their first decade. Young children make size/shape changes and end-of-sequence insertions/deletions of drawing elements. Older children also make middle-of-sequence insertions/deletions and position/orientation changes in drawing elements. Why do modifications occur in this order? We argue that older children's modifications require processing ternary relations, which according to a relational complexity theory, is beyond the working memory capacity of young children.