Journal
COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
Volume 26, Issue 4, Pages 299-314Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2011.10.001
Keywords
Episodic foresight; Order memory; Temporal reasoning; Temporal language; Preschool development
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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. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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