Cultural Factors in the Development of Temporal and Spatial Ordering

2 free-recall tasks, one involving pictures and one objects, were administered to Australian Desert aboriginal 9-16-year-olds. Aborigines, unlike "normal" Western children, generally preferred spatial over temporal recall order. There were no significant age-related trends to reproduce the...

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Published inChild development Vol. 51; no. 2; pp. 569 - 571
Main Authors Davidson, Graham R., Klich, Leon Z.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Chicago, etc University of Chicago Press 01.06.1980
University of Chicago Press for the Society for Research in Child Development, etc
Subjects
Brief Reports
British culture
Child development
Child psychology
Children
Communities
Deserts
Memory
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Summary:2 free-recall tasks, one involving pictures and one objects, were administered to Australian Desert aboriginal 9-16-year-olds. Aborigines, unlike "normal" Western children, generally preferred spatial over temporal recall order. There were no significant age-related trends to reproduce the temporal rather than the spatial order. There were significantly more changes from temporal to spatial order than vice versa from the pictures to the objects task, where subjects' recall orders were different on the two tasks. Results were consistent with a socioecological model of aboriginal cognitive activity.
ISSN:0009-3920
1467-8624
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8624.1980.tb02581.x