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Direct linkWaismeyer, Anna S.; Jacobs, Lucia F. – Developmental Psychology, 2013
The development of spatial navigation in children depends not only on remembering which landmarks lead to a goal location but also on developing strategies to deal with changes in the environment or imperfections in memory. Using cue combination methods, the authors examined 3- and 4-year-old children's memory for different types of spatial cues…
Descriptors: Cues, Young Children, Memory, Experiments
Kushnir, Tamar; Gopnik, Alison – Developmental Psychology, 2007
This study examines preschoolers' causal assumptions about spatial contiguity and how these assumptions interact with new evidence in the form of conditional probabilities. Preschoolers saw a toy that activated in the presence of certain objects. Children were shown evidence for the toy's activation rule in the form of patterns of probability: The…
Descriptors: Toys, Inferences, Probability, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension)
