The Cognitive Consequences of Specific Experiences: Weaving Versus Schooling among the Navajo
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This study examines the generalizability of cognitive skills across varying domains by comparing the predictiveness of an everyday skill (weaving) and formal schooling for performance on four pattern continuation tests varying in their similarity to weaving and schooling. The subjects were 79 adult Navajo women from the eastern area of the Navajo reservation. Their schooling varied from 0 to 16 years and their skill in weaving ranged from nonweaver to expert. Multiple regression analyses indicated that weaving skill was the best predictor of performance on the task resembling weaving, as expected, but schooling experience did not predict performance on the task designed to resemble schooling after subject's age was controlled. The results call into question the notion that what is learned in particular experiences automatically improves skills in general.
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The potential for transfer from non-schooling kinds of activities is as great as that from school-based activities.
“Rogoff (1982) and Rogoff and Gauvain (1984) found that the potential for transfer from non-schooling kinds of activities was as great as that from school-based activities.”
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- Authors
- Rogoff, B., & Gauvain, M.
- Affiliations
- University of Utah (US)
- Venue
- Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1984-12
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 453-475
- ISSN
- 0022-0221 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-5422
- OpenAlex
- W2168467584
- Cited by
- 38
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 0.55
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Cognitive Abilities and Testing
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Educational and Psychological Assessments
- Keywords
- transfer of learning, formal education, Navajo women, experiential learning, cross-cultural cognition
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