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Zhang, Jiannong Shi, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Inspection time (IT) has been linked to Speed of information processing which is looked as a key
index of cognitive ability. In the present study, 30 children aged 11 with half intellectual
supernormal and another half normal, participated the experiment, and the vertex ERPs, as well as
the ITs, were recorded while they were engaged in performing a Visual Inspection Time (VIT)
task. A zone of ERP, 100 to 300ms after stimulus onset was presented to reveal the relationship
between ERPs components and ITs. The possible implications of the findings for cognitive
development of super-normal children were analyzed.
2080 ORAL
Human development
Chair: Katja Elisabeth Petrovic, Austria
2080.1 The relationship between children’s theory-of-mind and their peer interaction, Biao
Sang, Yili Xu, East China Normal University, China
This experiment wants to verify the relationship between theory-of-mind (ToM) performance in
young children and their peer interaction in actual lives. The method concerned includes False
Belief test, peer nomination and video-making which is chiefly about the reactions of children in
the pretend play. The result shows young children’s ToM performance can reliably affect their peer
interaction. ToM-well-developed children seem to be more active, more considerate and more
cooperative with their partner during the play, compared to those ToM-less-developed ones. There
is no obvious difference of children’s reactions when they are playing with their favorite friends or
ordinary friends.
2080.2 Children and young adult’ road risk assessment, Jean Underwood, Alison Ault, Gayle
Dillon, Bill Farnsworth, The Nottingham Trent University, UK
Risk perception of roadway scenes is a function of the cognitive schemata by which road users
represent features, functions and operations of the traffic system. Two tasks investigated: Is there a
developmental trend in the perception of risk assessment?; If a trend exists is it linear?; What is
the effect of road experience? Sixty schoolchildren in three age groups were compared with adults.
In Task 1 participants sorted photographs of road scenes into groups on self-selected criteria, while
Task 2 required re-categorisation according to the overall safety of the scene. The results clearly
indicate a step-function developmental trend.
2080.3 The study of young children’s perceptual-predominance, Jing Chang, Lei Mo, South
China Normal University, China
Research about categorization has focused on whether children’s categorization are
perception-based or conception-based. Gentner advanced that after comparing the objects both
perceptually and conceptually alike, children would categorize conceptually. We suggest children
are more likely to categorize perceptually, and that can not be changed by comparison. In our
study, comparison was canceled and the result was the same. Then we let children compare the
objects only similar perceptually or conceptually, and the children categorized perceptually.
Finally, we tested the breakage of conflicting labels to similarities, and found that
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