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Zelanti, Pierre S.; Droit-Volet, Sylvie – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2011
The current study investigated how the development of cognitive abilities explains the age-related changes in temporal judgment over short and long duration ranges from 0.5 to 30 s. Children (5- and 9-year-olds) as well as adults were given a temporal bisection task with four different duration ranges: a duration range shorter than 1 s, two…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Cognitive Ability, Time Perspective, Age Differences
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Friedman, William J. – Cognitive Development, 2011
Recent research on children's thinking about the future has taken multiple directions, many of which are illustrated in the contributions to this special issue. In this commentary the topic is discussed in the context of research on children's understanding of time, and some of the adaptive challenges of thinking about the future are considered.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Research, Children, Thinking Skills
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Richards, D. Dean; Siegler, Robert S. – 1979
This paper reports two experimental studies of the development of time, speed and distance concepts in children. In Experiment I subjects (12 in each of four age groups: 5-, 8-, 11-year-olds, and adults) were asked to judge which of two electric trains on parallel tracks went faster, for the longer distance, or for more time. Subject's knowledge…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adults, Age Differences, Children
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Klapper, Zelda S.; Birch, Herbert G. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: Age Differences, Auditory Perception, Child Development, Cognitive Ability