The Development of a Diachronic Perspective in Children

Abstract

(from the chapter) diachronic thinking can be defined as the ability to understand things in time and, more specifically, to reconstitute and anticipate the stages of an evolving process and to conceive of the continuity of the process / five experiments were conducted to study the development of diachronic thinking in 8- to 11-year-old children in different domains / each of the 290 subjects, interviewed individually, was required to draw or describe or order past and future stages of a situation