Creativity as embedded in object exploration: The differences between Chinese and Dutch preschoolers and the role of self-regulation ...

In this cross-cultural comparison study, three cohorts of children aged 2 to 4 years (two cohorts from China and one cohort from the Netherlands) were tested on their exploration of novel objects and their self-regulation and executive functions. The goal of this study was three-folded:(1) We aim to abstract and to describe the exploration patterns, or in other words, the dynamic processes that children of 2 to 4 years of age undergo to exhibit original, creative actions within the exploration task (i.e., the Usual Box task, UBT). (2) We aim to investigate whether culture as the context in lar... Mehr ...