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inter-individual activity into intra-individual process. Ratner et al. (2002) considered
source-monitoring error as an index of inter-subjective engagement and examined relationship
between source-monitoring error and task performance. Although they found task performance
was mediated by source-monitoring error, they did not examined whether inter-individual
activities were internalized. We re-examined their findings using the errand planning task to
examine that with third graders. We found participants who showed more source-monitoring error
performed better and more likely to use strategies used in inter-individual activities than their
counterparts even when they work for themselves.
2098.41 Development of Chinese and North American children’s theory of mind, David Liu,
Henry M. Wellman, Twila Tardif, Mark A. Sabbagh, University of Michigan, USA
Scholars have argued that theory-of-mind development follows an universal course. In a recent
meta-analysis (Wellman et al., 2001) of false-belief studies, children from different (largely
Western) countries showed a consistent developmental trajectory. For a comprehensive
comparison between Western and non-Western children, we conducted a meta-analysis of 150
Chinese false-belief conditions (from Mainland China and Hong Kong) and 155 matched North
American false-belief conditions. The results of the meta-analysis showed that Chinese and North
American children similarly develop false-belief understanding between 2 ½ and 6
years-of-age, providing important support for some universality in theory-of-mind development.
2098.42 Developmental trend on children’s digit symbol coding and symbol search abilities:
USA and Taiwan WISC-III norm compared, Hsin-Yi Chen 1 , Jianjun Zhu 2 , 1 Taiwan, China; 2 The
Psychological Corporation, USA
WISC-III Digit Symbol and Symbol Search subtests have been identified as yielding useful
clinical information. In this proposed study, U.S.A WISC-III Standardization sample (N=2200)
and Taiwan WISC-III norm sample (N=1100) are compared, and the developmental trends
(includes performance and slope) based on raw scores of two cultures will be examed. We also
interested in the role which Chinese character may play, since Chinese character is more like a
complex symbol, it is expected that Chinese children may do better on these tasks, and this
difference should be detected at very young age, and might disappear later as age grows older.
2098.43 A longitudinal study on 3-year-old children’s mental rotation development, Jin Sun 1 ,
Sha Tao 1 , Hua Zhang 2 , Hongxia Wu 1 , 1 Beijing Normal University, China; 2 Peking University,
China
104 children of 3-year-old were traced for one year with standard mental rotation tasks. Children's
performance much developed after one year. There was no significant difference in 3-year-old
children's slide, rotation and flip scores, but in 4-year-old children's scores, their slide score was
best, whereas rotation score was worst. No gender difference was found in both 3-and-4-year-old
children's performance. While in the developmental pattern, boys' improvement in the slide task
was fastest, and that in the rotation task was slowest. Girls' improvement was quite opposite to
boys'.
2098.44 Pattern cognition in early childhood: Its development and correlations, Hongxia Wu,
Lijuan Pang, Yajuan Shi, Sha Tao, Beijing Normal University, China
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