Baranova E.A. Cognitive activity at the age of how’s and why’s: can preschool children formulate questions?

Baranova E.A. Cognitive activity at the age of how’s and why’s: can preschool children formulate questions? // Preschool Education Today. 2011, Issue 3 - p. 78-84.

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2011, 3

Elvira A. Baranova
Doctor of Psychological Sciences, Head of Department of Developmental and Special Psychology of Chuvash State Pedagogical University named after I.Ya.Yakovlev (Cheboksary, Russia)

Abstract

The article discusses children’s inquisitiveness in the preschool age and provides experimental data of a research on five-to-six year-olds’ cognitive activity that manifests itself in their questionings. The author describes the methods of diagnostics, and an original classification of children’s questions. The results show distribution of question types between two age groups – 5 to 6, and 6 to 7 years of age, and define criteria for assessing children’s cognitive activity manifested in questions.