Journal
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 81, Issue 1, Pages 44-73Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1006/jecp.2001.2643
Keywords
memory; collaboration; source monitoring; internalization; preschool; private speech; planning
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The aim of this research was to provide empirical evidence for a cognitive process that may contribute to children's learning from another person. A cornertone of Vygotsky's sociocultural theory is that knowledge is internalized from others however, the cognitive processes that support this transformation are underspecified. In a series of three studies, kindergarten children (mean age 5 years 8 months) participated in a categorization task with an adult in several collaborative and noncollaborative conditions and then were tested on their memory of who had performed which actions in the task. After the memory task. children were asked to recategorize the items on their own. Source-monitoring patterns and children's teaming varied across conditions according to predictions. A measure of recoding was related to children's planning language that. in turn, predicted learning among the children. The results suggest that one process that contributes to children's internalization of knowledge may involve recoding of agent information and that recoding can be indexed by source-monitoring performance. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science.
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