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ERIC Number: EJ246140
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1981-Jun
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Developmental Differences in Cognitive Mapping: Configurational Knowledge of Familiar Large-Scale Environments.
Curtis, Lynne E.; And Others
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, v31 n3 p456-69 Jun 1981
First-, fifth-, and eighth-grade children were asked to make bearing and distance estimates to six targets from three sighting locations in their school. Among the results, correlations between estimated and actual bearings and distances were extremely high at all grade levels. Bearing accuracy increased between first and fifth grades. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Development, Elementary Education, Junior High Schools, School Space, Spatial Ability
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Cognitive Mapping