Children's detection and use of cues to infer object displacement.
Published: 2007
Language: eng
Number of pages: 29
ISBN-13: 9780494273371
Subjects: Inference.; Searching behavior in children.; Visual perception in children.
Description: Previous research on toddler search using a ramp apparatus revealed that children under 36 months have great difficulty searching for the hidden toy. The object-directed attention account posits that attention spreads from proximal to distal within an object, which means that a cue is most useful if it is both directly connected to and attached closer to the centre of the target object. This study investigated 24-, 30-, and 36-month olds' search for a hidden car under short- vs. long-cue conditions with an obliquely aligned cue. Results revealed that children performed better under short-cue conditions, but the cue's orientation relative to the target object affected children's overall performance, especially for the youngest group. Implications for the object-directed attention account are discussed.
Notes: Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 3313.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 2007.

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