eprintid: 32018
rev_number: 14
eprint_status: archive
userid: 6851
dir: disk0/00/03/20/18
datestamp: 2022-08-08 09:01:51
lastmod: 2022-08-23 12:55:16
status_changed: 2022-08-08 09:01:51
type: doctoralThesis
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Breyel, Sabine
title: The early development and challenges of tool innovation 
in preschool children
subjects: ddc-100
subjects: ddc-150
divisions: i-100200
adv_faculty: af-10
abstract: The ability to individually solve a novel problem by modifying objects into a new tool is termed tool innovation. This thesis aims to provide new insights into the challenges children face during tool innovation tasks by taking three different approaches. First, I describe the early development of innovation skills in the preschool age in more detail by examining three- to five-year-olds’ skills in solving two versions of a tool-making task and suggest more differentiated ways to analyze children’s solution approaches. Second, I analyze children’s private speech while solving these problems to examine which processes on the cognitive, emotional, or motivational level might affect innovation performance. Third, in a training study, I examine whether young children benefit from prior experiences in tool making through analogical transfer.
date: 2022
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00032018
ppn_swb: 1815011521
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-320188
date_accepted: 2022-06-27
advisor: HASH(0x55f3690fbc60)
language: eng
bibsort: BREYELSABITHEEARLYDE20220727
full_text_status: public
place_of_pub: Heidelberg
citation:   Breyel, Sabine  (2022) The early development and challenges of tool innovation in preschool children.  [Dissertation]     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/32018/1/%23%23%23Dissertation_Sabine_Breyel_PDF-A.pdf