Analysis of the development of children's spatial reference systems

Pufall, Peter B.; Shaw, Robert E.

doi:10.1016/0010-0285(73)90031-5

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“…Unlike the 5-year-olds, both these younger groups failed to compensate for rotation of the map in the two 180° rotation conditions. They chose the box directly across from the correct one in most cases, thus demonstrating the same type of egocentrism found at these ages by researchers using model spaces (e.g., Pufall & Shaw 1973). The decline of such rotation errors between ages 4 and 5 in the present study is also remarkably consistent with the results of Pufall and Shaw, who found 4-year-olds making many more errors than 6-year-olds in positioning an object on a model space after the experimenter's model with a similar object had been rotated 180°.…”

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“…Some indirect information about this second component is provided in studies requiring children to duplicate on their own model space the location of a target object placed on the experimenter's model space (e.g., Piaget & Inhelder 1967;Pufall & Shaw 1973). While these studies do not involve inferences to large-scale spaces, they have revealed that the preoperational child often codes location egocentrically when one space is rotated 180° relative to the other.…”

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Developmental Changes in Map-reading Skills

Bluestein¹,

Acredolo²

1979

Child Development

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and ACREDOLO, LINDA. Developmental Changes in Map-reading Skills. CHILD DEVELOPMENT, 1979, 50, 691-697. The ability of 3-, 4-, and 5-year-old children to infer the position of an object in a room from information contained on a map was assessed under 5 conditions: (a) map aligned inside the room (the pretest); (b) map aligned outside the room; (c) map rotated 180° inside the room; (d) map rotated 180° outside the room; and (e) map held vertically outside the room. The results indicated that children as young as 3 years could read a map aligned inside a room but that the ability to compensate for a rotated map did not develop until age 5. The position of the map inside or outside the room did not affect performance in either the ahgned or rotated conditions, with the exception that fewer egocentric errors were made in the rotated-outside condition than in the rotated-inside condition. The vertically held map was easily interpreted by most children who succeeded on the pretest, thus indicating that "up" and "down" are readily interchanged with "near" and "far." All the results are discussed in relation to a 2-component model of map reading.

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Developmental Changes in Map-reading Skills

Bluestein¹,

Acredolo²

1979

Child Development

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“…In a self-reference system (visual), vertical is defmed from head to toe, or, perhaps, from hair to chin, and horizontal is defmed from ear to ear. In the pattern 'itself, the rows and columns of the dot matrices are perpendicular to one another, so that they define an internal diagonal independent of the orientation of the display in either the geographical or self-reference system (Pufall & Shaw, 1973).…”

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Simple kinetic information for transparent depth

Mace

Shaw

1974

Perception & Psychophysics

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The present paper reports three investigations of new kinetic information for transparent depth using computer-generated dot patterns. An initial demonstration showed that separation in depth could be obtained by translating rectangular lattices of dots through one another like intersecting columns of marching soldiers. The first two experiments showed that diagonal interactions between lattices created significantly stronger separation than did horizontal or vertical interactions (horizontal was, in turn, stronger than vertical) and that patterns which translated through one another without any of the individual elements intersecting were better separated than those whose rows or columns intersected in register. The third experiment showed that random patterns interacting in any direction created the strongest separations of all the patterns observed. Results were taken to indicate that a unified theory of depth information, developed in the context of James Gibson's ecological optics, must incorporate both spatial and kinetic structure in its specification of necessary and sufficient stimulus conditions.

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“…Another aspect of research involving spatial organization deals with the problem of spatial reference systems or the issue of "where things are" (Pufall & Shaw, 1973). Recently, this line of investigation has begun to use patterns of a more symbolic sort-maps-to study the information employed in making judgments of spatial position.…”

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Similarity judgments of patterns and maps

Halpern

Fishbein

Warm

1979

Bull. Psychon. Soc.

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An algorithmic technique is described for generating from a common prototype three populations of forms (dots, open forms, and polygons) having different configurational properties. Within each population, subjects rated the similarity between standard stimuli and 20 transformations of these stimuli. The stimuli were represented to the subjects as abstract patterns or as maps. High rank·order correlations were obtained between the ratings given to the various transformations in each form population and in the pattern and map conditions. These correlations led to two conclusions: (1) there was ecological validity in the stimulus factors that influenced similarity judgments in the three form populations, and (2) subjects used analogous processes when making similarity judgments in tasks focusing upon pattern perception and spatial reference systems.

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Analysis of the development of children's spatial reference systems

Cited by 50 publications

References 12 publications

Developmental Changes in Map-reading Skills

Developmental Changes in Map-reading Skills

Simple kinetic information for transparent depth

Similarity judgments of patterns and maps

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