Visual Perspective Taking in Children: Further Ramifications of an Information-Processing Model

Forty children between ages 6 and 8 were administered a set of spatial perspective tasks. On half of the items, children responded by rotating a duplicate of the target display; on the remainder, children reconstructed the displays to correspond to a perspective view. The displays differed as to whe...

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Published in:The Journal of genetic psychology 1985-09, Vol.146 (3), p.379-387
Main Authors: Rosser, Rosemary A., Ensing, Sally Stevens, Mazzeo, John, Horan, Patricia F.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Child Development
Cognition. Intelligence
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Humans
Male
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Psychomotor Performance
Psychophysics
Space Perception
Spatial perception. Time perception
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Summary:Forty children between ages 6 and 8 were administered a set of spatial perspective tasks. On half of the items, children responded by rotating a duplicate of the target display; on the remainder, children reconstructed the displays to correspond to a perspective view. The displays differed as to whether they contained marked or unmarked objects. On the basis of an information-processing analysis of these tasks, we predicted that the response-type variables and stimulus variables would interact in known ways. Analysis of variance results revealed a good fit with the hypothesized outcomes. Main effects were detected for age, which favored older children, and for display, which favored unmarked objects; the rotation task proved easier. Significant interactions revealed that task demands increasing task difficulty were more problematic in the construction task than in the rotation task, as predicted.
ISSN:0022-1325
1940-0896
DOI:10.1080/00221325.1985.9914466