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2063.19 The role of strategic visual attention in children’s occlusion drawing, Gao Xuemei,
Zheng Chijun, South-West Normal University, China
This study has examined 90 4 to 5-year-olds young children. The experimental materials are cup.
From this study, the following conclusion has been drawn: (1) Hinting about the strategy visual
attention can improve the 5-year-olds children’s visual realism drawing. (2) There are mainly six
representation strategies in children’s occlusion drawing. The representation strategies utilized by
children in occlusion drawing demonstrate the development of children’s cognition. (3) Complete
occlusion presents less difficulties than partial occlusion.
2063.20 The influence of complexity and reasoning direction, Zheng Chijun 1 , Gao Xuemei 2 , Li
Hong 2 , 1 Southwest Normal University Press, Chongqing, China; 2 South-West China Normal
University, Chongqing, China
Causal reasoning is the core and basis of cognition about the objective world. This experiment
studied the development of causal reasoning in 66 3.5- to 4.5-year-olds using a ramp apparatus
with two input holes and two output holes (Frye et al., 1995). Results revealed that (1) children
performed better on cause-effect inferences than on effect-cause inferences; (2) there was an effect
of rule complexity such that uni-dimensional causal inferences were easier than bi-dimensional
inferences which, in turn, were easier than tri-dimensional causal inferences; and (3) children’s
causal reasoning develops rapidly between the ages of age of 3.5 to 4 years.
2063.21 Development of “more” and “less” concept from 3 to 11 year old children, Guoen Yin 1 ,
Yingxia Li 2 , Yong Li 1 , 1 Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, China; 2 Hebei Hengshui Teacher's
College, China
Children aged 3- to 11-year-old were tested in a quantity decision task with stimuli varied from 2
to 30 or from 5 to 100. The experiment found that a turning point of quantity decision age was 7.
Subsequently, critical values of the quantity decision (more or less) increased with age. The
critical quantity decision value of the dots ranging from 5-100 is bigger than that of the dots
ranging from 2-30.
2063.22 Developmental level of children’s co-operative stratagem, Yousui Li, China
300 children were selected randomly from the first, second and third grades in primary schools
and the top and middle classes in kindergartens for the current work. The co-operative stratagem
was divided into 4 levels. The development trend of children's co-operative behavior was studied
by the method of playing games and under the condition of encouraging co-operation. The result
showed that the greater the age, the more co-operative behavior level but the less the competitive
behavior. Sex factor had little influence on the co-operative behavior, but had significant influence
on the competitive behavior.
2063.23 Preschooler’s ability to use emotional cues to infer other’s desires, Xiao-Dong Yang, Ge
Fang, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
72 three- to five-year-old preschoolers were exposed to stories in which the character got (or did
not get) a nice (or poor) object and felt happy (or unhappy). Their ability to infer other’s desire
according to emotion cues was investigated. 3-year-olds had difficulty to utter the cause of other’s
emotion. More than half 5-year-olds were able to attribute character’s emotion to his(her) desire or
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