What is the child's own view in a spatial task?: a spatial by temporal interaction affecting errors in perceptual reports.
Children are sometimes called 'egocentric' on the basis of their performance on Piagetian spatial-inference tasks. They often inappropriately substitute their own perceptual report for another observer's. Little is known about what responses are activated in giving perceptual reports. An experiment is presented which tightly controls spatial and temporal stimulus ordering. One condition elicted reports of that aspect of the display which children could not see instead of what they could see. Explanations are considered on the basis of relational coding and temporal responsiveness.
D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003118:Color Perception; D004192:Discrimination, Psychological; D005260:Female; D005556:Form Perception; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013028:Space Perception; D013997:Time Factors