Psychological Development and Education ›› 2021, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (3): 313-322.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2021.03.02

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The Automaticity of Children's Spatial Perspective-taking and Its Development

ZUO Tingting1, HU Qingfen2   

  1. 1. School of Psychology, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 239000;
    2. Institute of Developmental Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
  • Published:2021-05-18

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Abstract: In this study, we used spatial perspective-taking task to examine the automaticity and developmental trajectory of spatial perspective-taking for children aged 7~11. The results showed that:(1) In the other tasks, the accuracy decreased as the angular disparity between the doll and the subject increased; (2) In the self tasks when the spatial relationship were consistent, the correct rates was higher than when the spatial relationship was inconsistent. And the reverse consistency effect appeared when the angular disparity between the doll and the subject was during 150°~180°. The results of this study prove that the task of this study is an effective spatial perspective-taking task for children. Seven to nine-year-old children can automatically transform spatial perspectives. Eleven-year-old children can automatically make spatial perspective-taking that needs to make left-right judgements. This study demonstrates for the first time that the age of eleven is the relative turning point in the age at which children automatically make spatial perspective-taking that needs to make left-right judgements.

Key words: spatial perspective-taking, children, automaticity, developmental trajectory

CLC Number: 

  • B844
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