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Prospective and Retrospective Time Estimates of Children: A Comparison Based on Ecological Tasks

Author(s) -

Nicolas Bisson,

Simon Tobin,

Simon Grondin

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

plos one

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.99

H-Index - 332

ISSN - 1932-6203

DOI - 10.1371/journal.pone.0033049

Subject(s) - task (project management) , estimation , retrospective cohort study , reading (process) , computer science , retrospective memory , variable (mathematics) , prospective cohort study , video game , ecology , statistics , psychology , medicine , biology , cognition , mathematics , surgery , psychiatry , multimedia , mathematical analysis , management , semantic memory , childhood memory , political science , law , economics

Children's time estimation literature lacks of studies comparing prospective and retrospective time estimates of long lasting ecological tasks, i.e. tasks reflecting children's daily activities. In the present study, children were asked to estimate prospectively or retrospectively how much time they played a video game or read a magazine. Regardless of the task, the results revealed that prospective time estimates were longer than the retrospective ones. Also, time estimates of the video game task were longer, less accurate and more variable than those of the reading task. The results are discussed in the light of the current literature about time estimation of long lasting ecological tasks.

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