Psychological Development and Education ›› 2011, Vol. 27 ›› Issue (3): 241-246.

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Individual Differences in Reflective-Impulsive Cognitive Style： Children’s Problem Solving and Metacognition

CHEN Ying-he, HAO Jia-jia   

  1. Institute of Developmental Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
  • Online:2011-05-15 Published:2011-05-15

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Abstract: The present study examined the performance of children identified as reflective or impulsive on the three jigsaw-puzzle tasks with different complexity; explored the individual differences of problem solving and metacognition in reflective- impulsive cognitive style.The results revealed:1) Interactive effect between cognitive style and task complexity was significant.The reflective children spent more time for ongoing and offline metacognitive monitoring in simple task,for ongoing metacognitive monitoring in moderate task.2) There was no significant difference on the results of problem solving between the two group children.3) The impulsive children used more steps to solve the problems,and tended to complete the puzzle according the main structure,while the reflective children prefer inferring according the picture clues.

Key words: Reflective-Impulsive cognitive style, problem solving, strategy, metacognitive monitoring

CLC Number: 

  • B844.1
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