Young children who abandon error behaviourally still have to free themselves mentally: a retrospective test for inhibition in intuitive physics.

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  • Author(s): Freeman NH;Freeman NH; Hood BM; Meehan C
  • Source:
    Developmental science [Dev Sci] 2004 Jun; Vol. 7 (3), pp. 277-82.
  • Publication Type:
    Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Language:
    English
  • Additional Information
    • Source:
      Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 9814574 Publication Model: Print Cited Medium: Print ISSN: 1363-755X (Print) Linking ISSN: 1363755X NLM ISO Abbreviation: Dev Sci Subsets: MEDLINE
    • Publication Information:
      Original Publication: Oxford, UK ; Malden, MA, USA : Wiley-Blackwell, c1998-
    • Subject Terms:
      Choice Behavior* ; Cognition* ; Learning* ; Visual Perception*; Child Development/*physiology; Child ; Child Behavior ; Child, Preschool ; Concept Formation ; Cues ; Exploratory Behavior ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Psychology, Child ; Reaction Time
    • Abstract:
      When preschoolers overcome persistent error, subsequent patterns of correct choices may identify how the error had been overcome. Children who no longer misrepresented a ball rolling down a bent tube as though it could only fall vertically, were asked sometimes to approach and sometimes to avoid where the ball landed. All children showed requisite task-switching flexibility. The pattern of 4-year-olds' correct choices among different places showed unnecessary avoidance of any place that would previously have tempted them into a vertical-approach error, 5-year-olds rebounded into a reversal, and 7-year-olds were flexible. The data attest to an inhibition mechanism, ruling out competing possibilities.
    • Publication Date:
      Date Created: 20041215 Date Completed: 20050418 Latest Revision: 20191109
    • Publication Date:
      20231215
    • Accession Number:
      10.1111/j.1467-7687.2004.00346.x
    • Accession Number:
      15595368