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Children's behavior and spontaneous talk in a future thinking task.

Julian S Caza1, Cristina M Atance2

  • 1School of Psychology, University of Ottawa, Vanier Hall, Room 6006, Ottawa, ON, K1N 6N5, Canada. jcaza@uOttawa.ca.

Psychological Research
|September 7, 2018
PubMed
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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Development
  • Developmental Psychology

Background:

  • Future-oriented cognition develops in early childhood.
  • Understanding how children think about the future is crucial for developmental research.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate explicit and spontaneous future thinking in 3- to 5-year-olds.
  • To examine the influence of resource type (food vs. toys) on future cognition.
  • To explore methods for assessing spontaneous future thinking.

Main Methods:

  • 120 children aged 3-5 years participated.
  • Children engaged in tasks requiring planning for future needs (food or avoiding boredom).
  • Explicit planning and spontaneous verbalizations were recorded.

Main Results:

  • Older children (4-5 years) performed better than younger children (3 years).
  • Children performed better when planning for food needs compared to toy needs.
  • Successful explicit task performance correlated with more spontaneous future-oriented talk.

Conclusions:

  • Future thinking abilities mature during early childhood.
  • The nature of the stimuli impacts children's future planning capabilities.
  • Assessing spontaneous utterances is valuable for understanding children's cognitive processes.

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