Children's tool making : from innovation to manufacture

Through eight experiments this thesis investigated the divergence in children’s abilities in the domain of tool making. Despite being excellent tool manufacturers following full instruction, children displayed great difficulty in innovating novel tools to solve problems. Experiments 1 to 3 found fou...

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Main Author: Cutting, Nicola
Published: University of Birmingham 2013
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.567754