Children's reasoning about the temporal order of past and future events |
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Authors: | Teresa McCormack Mary Hanley |
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Institution: | School of Psychology, Queen''s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, BT7 1NN, UK |
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Abstract: | Four- and five-year-olds completed two sets of tasks that involved reasoning about the temporal order in which events had occurred in the past or were to occur in the future. Four-year-olds succeeded on the tasks that involved reasoning about the order of past events but not those that involved reasoning about the order of future events, whereas 5-year-olds passed both types of tasks. Individual children who failed the past-event tasks were not particularly likely to fail the more difficult future-event tasks. However, children's performance on the reasoning tasks was predictive of their performance on a task assessing their comprehension of the terms “before” and “after.” Our results suggest that there may be a developmental change over this age range in the ability to flexibly represent and reason about the before-and-after relationships between events. |
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Keywords: | Episodic foresight Order memory Temporal reasoning Temporal language Preschool development |
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