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    "title": "The Architecture of Children's Physics Knowledge a Problem-Solving Perspective",
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    "abstract": "The project investigated the nature of young children's physics knowledge and the architecture of its development. I utilized two contexts of development for this purpose: comparison of cross-age developments in knowledge of a domain and finegrained analysis of developments that occurred in the context of problem-resolution.The empirical base consisted of three conditions, under which preschoolers were asked to establish equilibrium on the pan balance. Analysis focused on the child's transformation of a number-based to a weight-based approach to the problem. All the conditions employed the same nine sets of elements to be balanced; the conditions varied a) whether or not the child received feedback from the apparatus and b) order of set presentation (total n= 56). A sequence of fine-grained analyses of the videotaped data lead to a view of children's physics knowledge as localized and context-sensitive;with the steps involved in its development as remarkably limited in extension : in a) the scope within which they come to represent weight or weight differences (e.g. discrete elements versus collective weight of elements in a pan) b) the scope of contexts in which they come to view weight as relevant to the goal of mechanical equilibrium and c) the bounds of diagnostic and causal implications",
    "language": "eng",
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    "section": "Paper Presentations",
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            "first_name": "Kathleen",
            "middle_name": "E.",
            "last_name": "Metz",
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            "institution": "University of California, Berkeley",
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    "date_submitted": null,
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    "date_published": "1988-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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