Developmental Spans in Event Comprehension and Representation: Bridging Fictional and Actual Events

by van den Broek; Paul

• ISBN13: 9780805817683
• ISBN10: 0805817689
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-02-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This volume, which addresses issues of discourse and event representation and comprehension, will be of interest to developmental and cognitive psychologists, psycholinguists, and educators.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
1 Event Representations Then, Now, and Next	1	(28)
Katherine Nelson
PART I: ESTABLISHING EVENT REPRESENTATIONS	29	(82)
2 Implicit Processes in the Development of Causal Knowledge: A Connectionist Model of the Use of Humean Cues	29	(22)
Michael E. Young
3 Development of Sensitivity to Spatial and Temporal Information	51	(28)
Martha E. Arterberry
4 Revealing the Representation: Evidence From Children's Reports of Events	79	(32)
Lynne Baker-Ward
Peter A. Ornstein
Gabrielle F. Albert Principe
PART II: EVENT UNDERSTANDING IN EARLY CHILDHOOD	111	(184)
5 Goal-Based Organization of Event Memory in Toddlers	111	(28)
Lisa L. Travis
6 Saying Is Revealing: Verbal Expression of Event Memory in the Transition From Infancy to Early Childhood	139	(30)
Patricia J. Bauer
Sandi Saeger Wewerka
7 Narrating and Representing Experience: Preschoolers' Developing Autobiographical Accounts	169	(30)
Robyn Fivush
Catherine A. Haden
8 Children's Understanding, Evaluation, and Memory for Emotional Events	199	(38)
Nancy L. Stein
Maria D. Liwag
9 Narrating, Representing, and Remembering Event Sequences	237	(34)
Tom Trabasso
Nancy L. Stein
10 Children's Memory for Televised Events	271	(24)
Elizabeth Pugzles Lorch
Rebecca Polley Sanchez
PART III: EVENT UNDERSTANDING IN CHILDREN AND ADULTS	295	(114)
11 Comprehending Characters' Emotions: The Role of Event Categories and Causal Connectivity	295	(26)
Tammy Bourg
Stacey Stephenson
12 Discovering the Cement of the Universe: The Development of Event Comprehension From Childhood to Adulthood	321	(22)
Paul van den Broek
13 Understanding the Causal Structure of Narrative Events	343	(18)
Charles R. Fletcher
Amy Briggs
Brian Linzie
14 A "Global-Coherence" View of Event Comprehension: Inferential Processing as Question Answering	361	(24)
Debra L. Long
Brian J. Oppy
Mark R. Seely
15 Building the Bridges: The Development of Event Comprehension and Representation	385	(24)
Tammy Bourg
Patricia J. Bauer
Paul van den Broek
Author Index	409	(12)
Subject Index	421