How do Children Find their Way through Familiar and Unfamiliar Environments?.

Blades, Mark; Spencer, Christopher

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ERIC Number: EJ378146

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1988

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How do Children Find their Way through Familiar and Unfamiliar Environments?

Blades, Mark; Spencer, Christopher

Environmental Education and Information, v7 n1 p1-14 Jan-Mar 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, Developmental Psychology, Educational Psychology, Elementary Education, Environmental Education, Memory, Recognition (Psychology), Science Education

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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