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- Title
Developmental Changes in Speed of Processing: Central Limiting Mechanism or Skill Transfer?
- Authors
Stigler, James W.; Nusbaum, Howard C.; Chalip, Laurence
- Abstract
Examines a claim that similarity in developmental speed-of-processing curves for two tasks indicates that performance on a wide range of cognitive tasks is constrained by the growth of a central limiting mechanism. Analysis of the central limiting mechanism hypothesis; Description of the skill transfer hypothesis; Discussion on the effects of learning on the component processes of a task.
- Subjects
COGNITIVE learning; ABILITY; CHILD development
- Publication
Child Development, 1988, Vol 59, Issue 4, p1144
- ISSN
0009-3920
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1130281