Deconstructing the spatial problem-solving of tower of london: analysis of task difficulty through the performance of preschool children

FRACCHIA, C.S.; SEGRETIN, M.S.; LIPINA, S.J.

Carlos Paz

Congreso; XXXIV Anual Meeting SAN 2019; 2019

Sociedad Argentina de investigación en Neurociencias

The Tower of London (TOL) task, has been frequently used to assess planning processes. Task difficulty has been associated with children´s performance, and it concern in several characteristics which has been associated to the problem space. In the present work, 252 children from 3 to 5 years of age from Buenos Aires were assessed with TOL. A logistic regression model was implemented in order to identify task characteristics factors (i.e., initial and final spatial arrangement, type of first movement and arrival options) associated with the children´s performances. Based on it, different resolution profiles (i.e., below, above and equal the median) based on the H index (which consider the own performance throughout the task and average performance of the sample) were identified. The total variance was 0.5% (R2 = .005) and results indicated that trials whose final spatial arrangement tend to be plane-shaped (B=.04; p