"What Should You Bring with You to This Place?": Examining Children's Episodic Foresight Using Open-Ended Questions
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Mazachowsky, Tessa R.
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Brock Univ, Dept Psychol, 1812 Sir Isaac Brock Way, St Catharines, ON L2S 3A1, CanadaBrock Univ, Dept Psychol, 1812 Sir Isaac Brock Way, St Catharines, ON L2S 3A1, Canada
Mazachowsky, Tessa R.
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Atance, Cristina M.
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Univ Ottawa, Sch Psychol, Ottawa, ON, CanadaBrock Univ, Dept Psychol, 1812 Sir Isaac Brock Way, St Catharines, ON L2S 3A1, Canada
Atance, Cristina M.
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Mitchinson, Sarah
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Wilfrid Laurier Univ, Dept Psychol, Waterloo, ON, CanadaBrock Univ, Dept Psychol, 1812 Sir Isaac Brock Way, St Catharines, ON L2S 3A1, Canada
Mitchinson, Sarah
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Mahy, Caitlin E., V
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Mahy, Caitlin E., V
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[1] Brock Univ, Dept Psychol, 1812 Sir Isaac Brock Way, St Catharines, ON L2S 3A1, Canada
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Children's episodic foresight, the ability to mentally project oneself into the future to pre-experience an event (e.g., Atance & O'Neill, 2005), begins to emerge early in the preschool years. Results from the Picture-book task (Atance & Meltzoff, 2005) have shown that children are generally capable of selecting an item needed in the future (from provided options), but young preschoolers have difficulty justifying their choice with future-oriented explanations. Because episodic foresight has typically been measured using forced-choice questions (such as the Picture-book task) less is known about children's more naturalistic and "open-ended" future thinking (i.e., more spontaneous forms of episodic foresight). Forty-eight 3-to 5-year-olds completed a new, open-ended version of the Picture-book task. Using a descriptive approach, we found that children were able to generate an appropriate item to bring with them to a future location, and that this ability improved with age. Temporal focus as well as internal (episodic) and external (semantic) details were explored in the context of children's explanations. Children's explanations were mostly present-oriented and included episodic and semantic details equally. Our findings extend our knowledge of children's episodic foresight by highlighting children's ability to solve future-oriented problems in an open-ended manner.
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