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McCormack, Teresa and Hoerl, Christoph (2017) The development of temporal concepts : learning to locate events in time. Timing and Time Perception, 5 (3-4). pp. 297-327. doi:10.1163/22134468-00002094 ISSN 2213-445X.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22134468-00002094
Abstract
A new model of the development of temporal concepts is described that assumes that there are substantial changes in how children think about time in the early years. It is argued that there is a shift from understanding time in an event-dependent way to an event-independent understanding of time. Early in development, very young children are unable to think about locations in time independently of the events that occur at those locations. It is only with development that children begin to have a proper grasp of the distinction between past, present, and future, and represent time as linear and unidirectional. The model assumes that although children aged 2 to 3 years may categorize events differently depending on whether they lie in the past or the future, they may not be able to understand that whether an event is in the past or future is something that changes as time passes and varies with temporal perspective. Around 4 to 5 years, children understand how causality operates in time, and can grasp the systematic relations that obtain between different locations in time, which provides the basis for acquiring the conventional clock and calendar system.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology | ||||||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy | ||||||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Time perception in children, Tense (Logic) | ||||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Timing and Time Perception | ||||||||||||
Publisher: | Brill | ||||||||||||
ISSN: | 2213-445X | ||||||||||||
Official Date: | 12 December 2017 | ||||||||||||
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Volume: | 5 | ||||||||||||
Number: | 3-4 | ||||||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 297-327 | ||||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1163/22134468-00002094 | ||||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 20 April 2017 | ||||||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 13 December 2017 | ||||||||||||
Funder: | Arts & Humanities Research Council (Great Britain) (AHRC), Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) | ||||||||||||
Grant number: | AH/P00217X/1 (AHRC), ES/N01281X/1 (EPSRC), ES/N000900/1 (EPSRC) | ||||||||||||
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