Effect of Mothers' Familiarity with a Formal Task on Cognitive Monitoring during Mother-Child Interactions.

Examined the effect of mothers' familiarity with a formal operations task on performance and monitoring of a cognitive task with their children and on the child's later performance alone. The task-familiar mothers elicted higher level strategies during problem solving and allowed their children to participate more than did the other mothers; their children used more systematic strategies at posttest. (TM)