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How do Children Find their Way through Familiar and Unfamiliar Environments?
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Blades, Mark; Spencer, Christopher – Environmental Education and Information, 1988
Discusses theories of how children represent the environment in their memory with reference to recent empirical evidence. States that children are more competent at recalling a route than has been assumed previously and that there are age-related differences in children's ability to select landmarks along a route. (Author/CW)
Descriptors: Child Psychology, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Structures
Children's Memory Schema in an Environmental Learning Task.
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Blades, Mark; Banham, Jessica – Environmental Education and Information, 1990
Described is an investigation that determined whether young children have schemas for environmental information. The results are discussed with reference to the importance of memory schemas for learning about the environment. (KR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures, Elementary School Science