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As the cognitive abilities of children develop, they are able to approach problems with strategies which are quite different and much more efficient than their formerly unstructured approach. In th...is programme children of various ages and stages of development are asked to play a version of the game of Twenty Questions, where one of a set of objects has to be detected by means of asking questions, to which the answer can only be 'yes' or 'no'. A range of strategies is revealed from the very sophisticated, where a minimal set of constraint questions are used, to the totally simple, where the questioner works through all possible specific questions before coming to an answer.
As the cognitive abilities of children develop, they are able to approach problems with strategies which are quite different and much more efficient than their formerly unstructured approach. In th...is programme children of various ages and stages of development are asked to play a version of the game of Twenty Questions, where one of a set of objects has to be detected by means of asking questions, to which the answer can only be 'yes' or 'no'. A range of strategies is revealed from the very sophisticated, where a minimal set of constraint questions are used, to the totally simple, where the questioner works through all possible specific questions before coming to an answer.
| Module code and title: | E201, Personality and learning |
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| Item code: | E201; 11 |
| Recording date: | 1975-11-05 |
| First transmission date: | 25-04-1976 |
| Published: | 1976 |
| Rights Statement: | Rights owned or controlled by The Open University |
| Restrictions on use: | This material can be used in accordance with The Open University conditions of use. A link to the conditions can be found at the bottom of all OUDA web pages. |
| Duration: | 00:28:20 |
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| Producer: | Meg Sheffield |
| Contributor: | Ann Floyd |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Cognitive abilities; Strategies; Twenty questions |
| Master spool number: | BLN45FW517J |
| Production number: | BLN45FW517J |
| Available to public: | no |
