Preschool-Age Children and Adults Flexibly Shift Their Preferences for Auditory versus Visual Modalities but Do Not Exhibit Auditory Dominance

Autor/inn/en	Noles, Nicholaus S.; Gelman, Susan A.
Titel	Preschool-Age Children and Adults Flexibly Shift Their Preferences for Auditory versus Visual Modalities but Do Not Exhibit Auditory Dominance
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 112 (2012) 3, S.338-350 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-0965
DOI	10.1016/j.jecp.2011.12.002
Schlagwörter	Visual Stimuli; Cues; Auditory Stimuli; Preschool Children; Experiments; Adults; Comparative Analysis; Prediction; Tests; Student Attitudes; Educational Environment; Experimental Psychology; Child Psychology + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Stichwort; Auditive Stimulation; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Erprobung; Vorhersage; Examination; Prüfung; Examen; Schülerverhalten; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Experimentelle Psychologie; Kinderpsychologie
Abstract	The goal of this study was to evaluate the claim that young children display preferences for auditory stimuli over visual stimuli. This study was motivated by concerns that the visual stimuli employed in prior studies were considerably more complex and less distinctive than the competing auditory stimuli, resulting in an illusory preference for auditory cues. Across three experiments, preschool-age children and adults were trained to use paired audio-visual cues to predict the location of a target. At test, the cues were switched so that auditory cues indicated one location and visual cues indicated the opposite location. In contrast to prior studies, preschool-age children did not exhibit auditory dominance. Instead, children and adults flexibly shifted their preferences as a function of the degree of contrast within each modality, with high contrast leading to greater use. (Contains 1 table and 2 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10