Journal
PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Volume 371, Issue 1690, Pages -Publisher
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0190
Keywords
innovation; cognitive development; individual differences
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- ESRC [ES/J023485/1]
- Economic and Social Research Council [ES/J023485/1, 1454361] Funding Source: researchfish
- ESRC [ES/J023485/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Recent studies of children's tool innovation have revealed that there is variation in children's success in middle-childhood. In two individual differences studies, we sought to identify personal characteristics that might predict success on an innovation task. In Study 1, we found that although measures of divergent thinking were related to each other they did not predict innovation success. In Study 2, we measured executive functioning including: inhibition, working memory, attentional flexibility and ill-structured problem-solving. None of these measures predicted innovation, but, innovation was predicted by children's performance on a receptive vocabulary scale that may function as a proxy for general intelligence. We did not find evidence that children's innovation was predicted by specific personal characteristics.
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