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Searching and planning : young children's reasoning about past and future event sequences
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McColgan, Kerry L. and McCormack, Teresa (2008) Searching and planning : young children's reasoning about past and future event sequences. Child Development, Vol.79 (No.5). pp. 1477-1497. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2008.01200.x ISSN 0009-3920.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2008.01200.x
Abstract
Six experiments examined children's ability to make inferences using temporal order information. Children completed versions of a task involving a toy zoo; one version required reasoning about past events (search task) and the other required reasoning about future events (planning task). Children younger than 5 years failed both the search and the planning tasks, whereas 5-year-olds passed both (Experiments 1 and 2). However, when the number of events in the sequence was reduced (Experiment 3), 4-year-olds were successful on the search task but not the planning task. Planning difficulties persisted even when relevant cues were provided (Experiments 4 and 5). Experiment 6 showed that improved performance on the search task found in Experiment 3 was not due to the removal of response ambiguity.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Reasoning in children, Human information processing in children, Inference | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Child Development | ||||
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc. | ||||
ISSN: | 0009-3920 | ||||
Official Date: | September 2008 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.79 | ||||
Number: | No.5 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 21 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 1477-1497 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2008.01200.x | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
Funder: | Arts & Humanities Research Council (Great Britain), Northern Ireland. Dept. for Employment and Learning |
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