Preschool Children Require Fewer Instructional Prompts to Perform a Memory Task in the Presence of a Dog

摘要: ABSTRACTThis paper presents two experiments that examined memory performance and adherence to instructions for a group of preschool children (n = 12) in the presence well-behaved real dog, stuffed human confederate. The were shown 10 objects each condition. At test, original object along with distracter asked select one they had seen before. As we expected, recognition was at ceiling no effects significant. Instructional prompts recorded ways: General included general like “Face this way,” whereas Task Specific directed child perform specific aspects task “Pick these objects.” first experiment involved use three-dimensional found both types prompts, fewer needed Real Dog condition, followed by Stuffed greatest number Human condit...