Children’s reasoning about spatial relational similarity

• Verfasst von: Hribar, Alenka [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Haun, Daniel [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Call, Josep [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Children’s reasoning about spatial relational similarity
• Titelzusatz: The effect of alignment and relational complexity
• Verf.angabe: Alenka Hribar, Daniel B.M. Haun, Josep Call
• E-Jahr: 2012
• Jahr: March 2021
• Umfang: 11 S.
• Fussnoten: Online 10 December 2011 ; Gesehen am 07.11.2018
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: Journal of experimental child psychology
• Ort Quelle: Orlando, Fla. : Acad. Press, 1964
• Jahr Quelle: 2012
• Band/Heft Quelle: 111(2012), 3, Seite 490-500
• ISSN Quelle: 1096-0457
• DOI: doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2011.11.004
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: Analogy
• Sach-SW: Landmark use
• Sach-SW: Relational complexity
• Sach-SW: Relational reasoning
• Sach-SW: Similarity
• Sach-SW: Spatial relation
• K10plus-PPN: 158264991X

Abstract

We investigated 4- and 5-year-old children’s mapping strategies in a spatial task. Children were required to find a picture in an array of three identical cups after observing another picture being hidden in another array of three cups. The arrays were either aligned one behind the other in two rows or placed side by side forming one line. Moreover, children were rewarded for two different mapping strategies. Half of the children needed to choose a cup that held the same relative position as the rewarded cup in the other array; they needed to map left-left, middle-middle, and right-right cups together (aligned mapping), which required encoding and mapping of two relations (e.g., the cup left of the middle cup and left of the right cup). The other half needed to map together the cups that held the same relation to the table’s spatial features—the cups at the edges, the middle cups, and the cups in the middle of the table (landmark mapping)—which required encoding and mapping of one relation (e.g., the cup at the table’s edge). Results showed that children’s success was constellation dependent; performance was higher when the arrays were aligned one behind the other in two rows than when they were placed side by side. Furthermore, children showed a preference for landmark mapping over aligned mapping.