Dyadic Interaction of Preschool Children and Performance on a Construction Task
- 1 June 1972
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 30 (3) , 747-750
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1972.30.3.747
Abstract
26 children (5 each at ages 2, 3, 4, and 5 and 6 at age 6) in a day care center were administered a construction task both singly and in randomly constructed same sex dyads. Dyadic interaction had an over-all effect of increasing the number of blocks used but not the amount of time the children spent on the task. The influence of age was significant for both number of blocks used and amount of time spent. Only for the 6-yr.-olds does dyadic interaction seem to be facilitative.Keywords
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