Reorientation and landmark-guided search by young children: Evidence for two systems

被引：89

作者：

Lee, Sang Ah ^{[1
]}

Shusterman, Anna ^{[1
]}

Spelke, Elizabeth S. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Harvard Univ, Dept Psychol, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA

来源：

PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE | 2006年 / 17卷 / 07期

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D O I：

10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01747.x

中图分类号：

B84 [心理学];

学科分类号：

04 ; 0402 ;

摘要：

Disoriented 4-year-old children use a distinctive container to locate a hidden object, but do they reorient by this information? We addressed this question by testing children's search for objects in a circular room containing one distinctive and two identical containers. Children's search patterns provided evidence that the distinctive container served as a direct cue to a hidden object's location, but not as a directional signal guiding reorientation. The findings suggest that disoriented children's search behavior depends on two distinct processes: a modular reorientation process attuned to the geometry of the surface layout and an associative process linking landmarks to specific locations.

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页码：577 / 582

页数：6

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