Relationships Between Procedural Rigidity and Interrepresentational Change in Children's Drawing Behavior

• Delphine Picard ^[1] ; Annie Vinter ^[2]
  1. [1] University of Montpellier

     University of Montpellier

     Arrondissement of Montpellier, Francia

     
  2. [2] University of Bourgogne, France
• Localización: Child development, ISSN 0009-3920, Vol. 78, Nº. 2, 2007, págs. 522-541
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The present experiments were aimed at testing Karmiloff-Smith's (1992) assumption that representational flexibility in drawing behavior requires the relaxation of a sequential constraint. A total of two hundred and forty 5- to 9-year-old children produced cross-category drawings (e.g., a house with wings) in 4 conditions. The results indicated that procedural rigidity declined as representational change improved. The decline in procedural rigidity occurred before representational change attained its highest level. This decline was related to a greater ability to manage early interruptions of the procedures, not to a greater ability to modify the usual feature sequencing. It was concluded that rigidity in routine development could act as a sequential constraint on interrepresentational change.