DEVELOPMENT OF TEMPORAL PERCEPTION IN CHILDREN: INFLUENCE OF AUDITORY AND VISUAL INTERVAL-FILLERS.
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Title
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DEVELOPMENT OF TEMPORAL PERCEPTION IN CHILDREN: INFLUENCE OF AUDITORY AND VISUAL INTERVAL-FILLERS.
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Identifier
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AAI8103927
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identifier
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8103927
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Creator
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FRIEDMAN, ESTELLE R.
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Contributor
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Tina Moreau
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Date
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1980
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Psychology, Developmental
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Abstract
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Temporal perception research has tended to focus, in a partisan manner, on either the evidence for an innate, sensory, "biological clock" explanation, or, on the other hand, on time perception as an acquired mental ability. The theory underlying the present study is that there is a primary organic choronometer, and that this interacts at later developmental stages with more cognitive concepts of time and measurements of intervals. It was hypothesized that preschool children are more dependent upon an internal clock and would therefore be less influenced by externally imposed time-fillers in reproducing brief intervals, as compared with older children and adults who use more cognitive time perception processes.;In the present study, two groups of pre-school children, aged 3 and 4 years, were compared with two groups of school-aged children, 8 and 9 years old. They were all tested for accuracy of reproduction of a 15-second interval. Subsequently, they were tested on the reproduction of the same interval with a presto metronome time-filler in the visual and auditory modes.;The mean reproduction time of the 3 year old children as a group was closest to the 15'' standard interval, but they were also the most variable children with some of them underreproducing and some overreproducing the time interval. Generally, the older groups of children underreproduced the interval. The 4 year olds were the least accurate group, and the 8 and 9 year olds were more accurate and approximately equivalent to each other. The two groups of older children were influenced to underreproduce the interval by the experimental insertion of presto auditory beats or visual flashes of light, whereas the two groups of younger children did not demonstrate such an effect. A comparison of the auditory with the visual mode of presentation of the presto metronome did not indicate a significant difference. Neither racial background nor gender were significant factors influencing accuracy in any group.;These results are consistent with the hypothesis that the younger children rely more heavily on an internal pacing in reproducing brief time intervals, and that their performance is resistant to the speed illusion of time-fillers. The older children have accumulated more experiences that are regulated by clocks, have developed counting skills, and have become more influenced by the rate of flow of events occurring within an interval, and their temporal reproductions are therefore more susceptible to the tempo of external visual and auditory stimuli.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Psychology
