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Preschool engineers
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Preschool engineers
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building bridges that can support an elephant’s walking across a river
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Yang
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Shuqi
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1990-
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Shuqi Yang
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Gelman
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Rochel
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Rochel Gelman
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chair
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Leslie
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Alan
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Alan Leslie
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internal member
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Hudson
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Judith
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Judith Hudson
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internal member
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McLaughlin
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Brian
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Brian McLaughlin
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Advisory Committee
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Rutgers University
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School of Graduate Studies
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2018
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eng
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Humans are creative artifact and tool makers. The first step in the manufacturing process is the selection of appropriate materials; yet, relatively little is known about children’s understanding of the properties of different materials that make them suitable for creating particular artifacts. In the 3 studies presented here, we asked children from 3 to 5 years old if different kinds of materials can be used to build a bridge for an elephant to walk on. In Study 1, each material was presented individually to one group that was asked to touch it, and another group that was not, before deciding whether it could be used to make a bridge for an elephant to walk on. If so, the elephant could choose the short route across river, if not, the elephant should take the longer route around the forest. 5-year-old children, but not 3- and 4-year-old children, showed an ability to choose the correct route depending on the material in the Touching-Not-Required condition. Study 2 presented children with a simplified version of Study 1; children were asked to choose which of two materials would make a bridge walk-on-able for an elephant. Since the thickness of the material covaried with the rigidity, study 3 controlled the thickness of the pairs presented; children as young as 3 years old could reliably use the relative rigidity of the samples to select the appropriate material. Our findings suggest that a cognitive precursor for artifact-making behaviors emerges in early childhood.
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Psychology
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Reasoning in children
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Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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1 online resource (76 pages : illustrations)
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Ph.D.
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Includes bibliographical references
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by Shuqi Yang
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School of Graduate Studies Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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doi:10.7282/t3-r476-k080
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ETD doctoral
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The author owns the copyright to this work.
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Yang
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Shuqi
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2018-09-27 22:26:14
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SHUQI YANG
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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2020-10-30
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Access to this PDF has been restricted at the author's request. It will be publicly available after October 30th, 2020.
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Permission or license
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