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Children's understanding of yesterday and tomorrow
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Children's understanding of yesterday and tomorrow
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Zhang
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Meng
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1987-
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Meng Zhang
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Hudson
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Judith A.
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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Children’s understanding of temporal language is one indication of their understanding of time. This study used a picture-sentence matching paradigm to test children’s understanding of yesterday and tomorrow. Children viewed two pictures of an object with a visible change of state (e.g., a carved pumpkin and an intact pumpkin) while listening to a sentence indicating the time of the action (e.g., “I carved the pumpkin yesterday”). They were asked to select one picture that matched the sentences. In Experiment 1, 69 3- to 5-year-old children completed this task, which included 12 sentences referred to the past and 12 referred to the future. Results showed that children performed better with past sentences than they did with future, suggesting they understand the temporal relation between past and present better than that between future and present. In Experiment 2, 41 4- to 5-year-old children completed the same task but with sentences containing conflicting tense and temporal adverb (e.g., “I carved the pumpkin tomorrow”). Results showed that children tended to select pictures that were the outcome of actions, regardless of when the action occurs, indicating their bias toward outcomes in temporal judgment. In Experiment 3, 25 adults completed the same task in Experiment 2 via computer. Their temporal judgments were mainly based on temporal adverbs, providing a maturity reference for this inconsistent situation.
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Psychology
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Supplementary File: Appendix
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1 online resource (vi, 40 p. : ill.)
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M.S.
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Includes bibliographical references
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Time--Philosophy
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by Meng Zhang
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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