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Complexity: From formal analysis to final action

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1998

Douglas Frye  and
Philip David Zelazo
Douglas Frye
Affiliation:
Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 [email protected]
Philip David Zelazo
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada M5S 3G3 [email protected]
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Abstract

Relational complexity provides a metric for measuring task demands, and in this respect has much in common with the cognitive complexity and control theory. However, relational complexity does not account for the relative difficulty of different relational types, and appears to underestimate the importance of changes in children's ability to act on the basis of their understanding.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 6 , December 1998 , pp. 836 - 837
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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