title: Effect of mothers' familiarity with a formal task on cognitive monitoring during mother-child interactions.
abstract: This study examined the effect of mothers' familiarity with a permutation task on the performance and monitoring of mother-child dyads during the solution of a cognitive task. In addition, the effect of mothers' familiarity with the task on children's independent performance on a similar task during a posttest was investigated. Forty dyads participated in the study. Half of the mothers were familiarized with the task during a pretest. Results indicated that mothers familiarized with the permutation task elicited higher level strategies during dyadic interaction. Task-familiar mothers also let children participate more extensively in the task solution and were more likely to explain strategies than task-unfamiliar mothers. Finally, children of task-familiar mothers were more likely to use systematic strategies at post-test.
authors.affiliation: Université de Montréal, Ecole de psycho-éducation, Québec, Canada.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Normandeau
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Arsenault
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D003071:Cognition; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009035:Mothers; D011340:Problem Solving; D012737:Sex Factors; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis