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Children's tool use progresses from unspecific manual use to specific instrumental use governed by the tool's culturally established mode of acting

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Evidence · 1 study · theoretical r3 · q2
Currency · newest study 2005 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

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q2 i? Across five age groups, children displayed gradual progress from unspecific manual use of a spade-like tool to specific instrumental use. → Arievitch 2005

Evidence

Arievitch 2005

Arievitch, I.M., & Haenen, J.P.P. (2005). Connecting Sociocultural Theory and Educational Practice: Galperin's Approach. Educational Psychologist, 40(3), 155-165. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15326985ep4003_2

q2 · i? · theoretical · r3

Galperin's early study (1998) of tool-mediated actions in five groups of 10 children aged 2 to 6-7 years, retrieving toys from a deep box with a spade-like tool in a play situation. The article reports "children displayed gradual progress from unspecific, 'manual' use of the spade to a specific, instrumental use."

"In Galperin's experiment, children displayed gradual progress from unspecific, "manual" use of the spade to a specific, instrumental use."

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Page metadata
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type claim
id galperin-tool-use-developmental-study
title Children's tool use progresses from unspecific manual use to specific instrumental use governed by the tool's culturally established mode of acting
description Children's tool use progresses from unspecific manual use to specific instrumental use governed by the tool's culturally established mode of acting
status review
evidence_strength weak
newest_evidence 2005
generated by process:wiki-ingest on 2026-10-22
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sources 1 — arievitch-2005

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