Establishing Predictors of Insight Problem Solving In Children: Age, Not Cognitive Control or Socioeconomic Status, Determines Immunity to Functional Fixedness

Thesis advisor: Ellen Winner === Cognitive control, the ability to limit attention to goal-relevant information, subserves higher-order cognitive functions such as reasoning, attention, planning and organization. Counterintuitively, deficits in these functions have proven advantageous in certain con...

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Main Author: Ershadi, Mahsa
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Boston College 2021
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:109037