Young children's use of spatial categorization as a mnemonic strategy

DeLoache, Judy S.; Todd, Christine M.

doi:10.1016/0022-0965(88)90019-7

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“…The latter strategy was expected to yield better selective attention (see Blumberg and Torenberg, 2003). Children also were expected to show greater recall of items placed in corners, regardless of their status as relevant or irrelevant, consistent with young children's demonstrated use of geometric cues (Spelke and Hermer, 1996), and spatial context (DeLoache and Todd, 1988;Hazen and Volk-Hudson, 1984;Hiesel and Ritter, 1981) to recall item locations. Thus, location of items in corners was expected to facilitate children's selective attention and incidental learning.…”

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confidence: 94%

The effects of spatial configuration on preschoolers' attention strategies, selective attention, and incidental learning

Blumberg

Torenberg

2005

Infant and Child Development

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This study investigated the effects of spatial arrangement on preschool children's selective attention and incidental learning. Three-and four-year old children were shown a multi-coloured box designated as a 'special place' containing miniature chairs and models of animals. One category of objects were designated as relevant and one as irrelevant. Relevant items were placed in each of the apparatus' corners, in the middle of its walls, or in two corners and in the middle of two walls. Findings revealed that children shown relevant items in corners demonstrated the greatest number of correct relocations for relevant items while those shown relevant items in the middle of the walls showed the greatest number of correct relocations for irrelevant items. Findings also suggest that for both age groups, the ability to recall relevant items may have been independent of their ability to demonstrate a selective attention strategy.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 94%

The effects of spatial configuration on preschoolers' attention strategies, selective attention, and incidental learning

Blumberg

Torenberg

2005

Infant and Child Development

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“…2). In fact, some researchers suggest that the other modes of spatial thinking exist primarily to help people organize and remember the facts that they deem important (DeLoache and Todd 1988;Gattis 2001). That conclusion, in turn, has significant implications for educators.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The Atlanta commutershed is the region where a sizeable fraction of people commute to work in Atlanta. The process of regionalization is basically a form of classification, with an explicitly spatial dimension-the mind searches for places that have something in common and are located adjacent (or at least close) to each other (DeLoache and Todd 1988;Gelman and Markman 1986;Wiener et al 2004). Human visual systems do this all the time, as they rather effortlessly decide which colored patches on the retina of an eyeball belong to this tree as opposed to that car or the building behind them both (Gilbert et al 1998).…”

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confidence: 99%

Spatial Thinking by Young Children: Neurologic Evidence for Early Development and “Educability”

Gersmehl

2007

Journal of Geography

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“…In the remembering group, the experimenter specifically informed children that once she came back they would be asked to open (rather than name or show) the correct container. The incentive (a bag of candies in the teddy bear's arms) was used to ensure that children in the remembering group were really involved in the memory task (Deloache & Todd, 1988;Deloache et al, 1985;Kinzinger & Witryol, 1984;O'Sullivan, 1993;Somerville, Wellman, & Cultice, 1983).…”

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confidence: 99%