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Hribar, Alenka; Haun, Daniel B. M.; Call, Josep – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2012
We investigated 4- and 5-year-old children's mapping strategies in a spatial task. Children were required to find a picture in an array of three identical cups after observing another picture being hidden in another array of three cups. The arrays were either aligned one behind the other in two rows or placed side by side forming one line.…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Investigations, Task Analysis, Children
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Tsubota, Yoko; Chen, Zhe – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2012
Three experiments were designed to examine how experience affects young children's spatio-symbolic skills over short time scales. Spatio-symbolic reasoning refers to the ability to interpret and use spatial relations, such as those encountered on a map, to solve symbolic tasks. We designed three tasks in which the featural and spatial…
Descriptors: Cues, Systems Approach, Young Children, Spatial Ability
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Luwel, Koen; Foustana, Ageliki; Papadatos, Yiannis.; Verschaffel, Lieven – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2011
A test-intervention-test study was conducted investigating the role of intelligence on four parameters of strategy competence in the context of a numerosity judgment task. Moreover, the effectiveness of two feedback types on these four parameters was tested. In the two test sessions, the choice/no-choice method was used to assess the strategy…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Intelligence, Intervention, Role
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Ackerman, Brian P. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1987
Examines the relation between attention to target and context information and target recall in an incidental learning task for children and adults. Results support a distinction between context-interactive and context-independent situations and suggest that the attentional patterns that are efficient for memory may differ with the kind of…
Descriptors: Attention, Cognitive Development, Difficulty Level, Elementary Education