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CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Volume 79, Issue 5, Pages 1477-1497Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2008.01200.x
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- Arts and Humanities Research Council [18473/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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Six experiments examined children's ability to make inferences using temporal order information. Children completed versions of a task involving a toy zoo; one version required reasoning about past events (search task) and the other required reasoning about future events (planning task). Children younger than 5 years failed both the search and the planning tasks, whereas 5-year-olds passed both (Experiments 1 and 2). However, when the number of events in the sequence was reduced (Experiment 3), 4-year-olds were successful on the search task but not the planning task. Planning difficulties persisted even when relevant cues were provided (Experiments 4 and 5). Experiment 6 showed that improved performance on the search task found in Experiment 3 was not due to the removal of response ambiguity.
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