The function of response mode in the coordination of perspectives |
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| Authors: | Patricia F Horan Rosemary A Rosser |
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| Institution: | The University of Arizona U.S.A. |
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| Abstract: | Visual perspective taking has attracted research interest as a result of Piagetian formulations regarding its ontogenesis. Some investigators have interpreted failure as a consequence of egocentrism while others have hypothesized task variables as the source of failure. The present study directly compared the effects of a picture selection response with a rotational one. Forty 3-year-olds and forty 4-year-olds were compared on the response modes. Half the children indicated perspective inferences by selecting from a set of photographs while the others rotated a replica. Children were tested on three nonegocentric perspectives. The data were analyzed with a 2(age) × 2(response mode) ANOVA. Significant effects were found for response mode and the age × response interaction. It was concluded that while both 3- and 4-year olds were able to demonstrate perspective-taking competence, the 3-year-olds performed better with the turning task; 4-year-olds were equally successful in either mode. |
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| Keywords: | Requests for reprints should be sent to the second author Department of Educational Psychology The University of Arizona Tucson AZ 85721 |
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