Searching and planning: young children's reasoning about past and future event sequences |
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| Authors: | McColgan Kerry L McCormack Teresa |
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| Institution: | Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom. k.l.t.mccolgan@warwick.ac.uk |
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| 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. |
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