Stage fright: internal reflection as a domain general enabling constraint on the emergence of explicit thought

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buir.contributor.authorAllen, Jedediah W.P.
dc.citation.epage91en_US
dc.citation.spage77en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber45en_US
dc.contributor.authorAllen, Jedediah W.P.en_US
dc.contributor.authorBickhard, M. H.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-01T10:23:30Z
dc.date.available2019-02-01T10:23:30Z
dc.date.issued2018en_US
dc.departmentDepartment of Psychologyen_US
dc.description.abstractIt has become increasingly clear over the last half century that there are multiple importantchanges in children’s abilities taking place at around age 4. These changes span social, emotional,and cognitive domains. While some researchers have argued that a domain-general developmentexplains some of the changes, such a position is a minority view. In the current article, weprovide some evidence for the development of an age 4 domain-general enabling constraint onchildren’s ability to reflect. In turn, the development of reflection is argued to enable the tran-sitions that we see within and across developmental domains. The model of reflection beingoffered is part of a broader action-based model of cognition and mind–interactivism (Bickhard,1973, 1978, 2009a,b). The empirical part of the article presents a new object reasoning task. Thistask was derived from theoretical constraints on the interactivist models of knowing and re-flection. Results indicated that most children responded to the task incorrectly until age 4 whichwas interpreted as evidence that they lacked the ability to explicitly reason about relations be-tween objects. Correlations between our new task and standard false-belief tasks were explored.Collectively, these results provide empirical support for the claim that children undergo a do-main-general development in their ability for epistemic reflection at around age 4en_US
dc.embargo.release2020-03-01en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.cogdev.2017.12.005en_US
dc.identifier.eissn1879-226X
dc.identifier.issn0885-2014
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/48709
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherElsevieren_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2017.12.005en_US
dc.source.titleCognitive Developmenten_US
dc.subjectInteractivismen_US
dc.subjectAction-based approachesen_US
dc.subjectReflectionen_US
dc.subjectFalse-beliefen_US
dc.subjectObject representationen_US
dc.subjectPreschoolersen_US
dc.titleStage fright: internal reflection as a domain general enabling constraint on the emergence of explicit thoughten_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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