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Doherty, Martin J. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4314-7892, Wimmer, Marina C., Gollek, Cornelia, Stone, Charlotte and Robinson, Elizabeth J.
(2021)
Piecing together the puzzle of pictorial representation: How jigsaw puzzles index metacognitive development.
Child Development, 92 (1).
pp. 205-221.
ISSN 0009-3920
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Abstract
Jigsaw puzzles are ubiquitous developmental toys in Western societies, used here to examine the development of metarepresentation. For jigsaw puzzles this entails understanding that individual pieces, when assembled, produce a picture. In Experiment 1, 3- to 5-year-olds (N=117) completed jigsaw puzzles that were normal, had no picture, or comprised non-interlocking rectangular pieces. Pictorial puzzle completion was associated with mental and graphical metarepresentational task performance. Guide pictures of completed pictorial puzzles were not useful. In Experiment 2, 3- to 4-year-olds (N=52) completed a simplified task, to choose the correct final piece. Guide-use associated with age and specifically graphical metarepresentation performance. We conclude that the pragmatically natural measure of jigsaw puzzle completion ability demonstrates general and pictorial metarepresentational development at 4 years.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Psychology |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Developmental Science Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > UEA Experimental Philosophy Group |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Jan 2020 03:16 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Jun 2023 10:31 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/73700 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/cdev.13391 |
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