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EJ212963 PS507944
Title: Play and Training in Direct and Innovative Problem Solving.Author(s): Smith, Peter K.; Dutton, Susan
Source: Child Development, v50 n3 p830-36 Sep 1979
Publication Date: September 1979
Language: English
Document Type: Journal articles (080); Reports--Research (143)
Journal Announcement: CIJAPR1980
Results showed
that play opportunity and training experience for four year olds
produced roughly equivalent problem-solving speeds when the task
was standard or direct. When the task was nonstandard or innovative,
however, play opportunity produced faster problem solving than training.
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Descriptors: *Comparative Analysis; *Play; *Preschool Children;
Preschool Education; *Problem Solving; *Training
