THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ABILITY TO DECENTER IN TIME

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In order to study children's developing ability to decenter temporally, an experiment was designed analogous to Piaget's three‐mountain problem concerned with spatial decentering. Two types of temporal decentering were studied. It was found that decentering correlated with verbal mental age. Children did not begin to decenter until after MA 4:11; it was not until after MA 5:11 that essentially all children decentered. Analysis of errors and of repetitions of the sentences used showed that ability to decenter did not depend on linguistic form, although some forms (e.g. the perfect tenses) led to more incorrect responses. Decentering which involved coordination of temporal viewpoints proved the most difficult.

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