CHILDREN'S COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT OF LIVED-EXPERIENCED TIME AND PHYSICAL TIME

• Authors: Samartzi Stavroula
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Cognitive processing of temporal information is based on multiple domains of knowledge including psychological and physical ones. The notion of age is an aspect of psychological time that can be conceived as a 'lived-experienced' time, whereas the notion of duration is an aspect of physical time. This research examines whether the acquisition of the notions of age and duration during cognitive development is simultaneous, as is suggested by the piagetian thesis, or successive, as recent research has shown. Four problems concerning past and future age and duration notions were presented to 146 Greek pupils aged 6 to 9 yrs. Pupils were asked to answer the questions and justify their answers. It is shown that a) in problems asking about past events, both age and duration are very difficult for children, b) problems asking about the future are easier and, contrary to the piagetian thesis, the acquisition of age in fact precedes duration. Moreover, cognitive boundaries during development are considered.

Keywords

EN

AGE; CHILDREN; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; DURATION; GREECE; TIME

Discipline

• PSYCHOLOGY: PSYCHOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Experimental Psychology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Studia Psychologica
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 53
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 307-311
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Samartzi Stavroula

• Stavroula Samartzi, Panteion University, Psychology Department, 136 Sygrou Aven., 17671 Athens, Greece

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11SKAAAA099019