ADVANCES IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT A N D BEHAVIOR VOLUME 10 Contributors to This Volume Ann L. Brown Mary Carol Day Mary Fulcher Geis John W. Hagen Robert H. Jongeward, Jr. Robert V. Kail, Jr. Boyd R. McCandless Alexander W. Siege1 Alice G. Vlietstra Sheldon H. White John C. Wright ADVANCES IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND BEHAVIOR edited by Hayne W. Reese Department of Psycho!ogy West Virginia University Morgantown, West Virginia VOLUME 10 @ 1975 ACADEMIC PRESS New York San Francisco London A Subsidiary of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers COPYRIGHT 0 1975,BY ACADEMIC PRESS, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. NO PART OF THIS PUBLICATION MAY BE REPRODUCED OR TRANSMITTED IN ANY FORM OR BY ANY MEANS, ELECTRONIC OR MECHANICAL, INCLUDING PHOTOCOPY, RECORDING, OR ANY INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEM, WITHOUT PERMISSION IN WRITING FROM THE PUBLISHER. ACADEMIC PRESS, INC. 111 Fifth Avenue, New York,New Y ork 10003 United Kingdom Edition published by ACADEMIC PRESS, INC. (LONDON) LTD. 24/28 Oval Road. London NW1 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOQ CARD NUMBER:63-23237 ISBN 0-12-009710-9 PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Contents LISTOF COhTRIBUTORS ................................................ PREFACE............................................................ vii ix Current Trends in Developmental Psychology BOYD R . McCANDLESS AND MARY FULCHER GEIS . .................................................... I1. Journal Acceptance Rates ......................................... 111. Classification of Manuscripts ...................................... IV . Conclusions .................................................... V . Summary ...................................................... 1 Introduction Reference ...................................................... 1 2 3 7 8 8 The Development of Spatial Representations of Large-Scale Environments ALEXANDER W . SIEGEL AND SHELDON H. WHITE I . Introduction .................................................... I1 . Human Knowledge of Space: General Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . III. Spatial Representations: Functions and Components ................... IV . How Adults Form Spatial Representations as a Function of Experience . . . . V . Main Sequences in Adaptation ..................................... VI . The Development of Children's Spatial Representations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VII . Summary and Conclusions ........................................ VIII . Epilog: On Spatial Thinking About Nonspatial Matters ................. References ..................................................... 25 30 37 45 47 48 Cognitive Perspectives on the Development of Memory JOHN W . HAGEN. ROBERT H . JONGEWARD. JR., AND ROBERT V . KAIL. JR . I . Early Research on the Development of Memory ....................... I1. Human Information Processing ..................................... 111. The Relevant Research ........................................... IV . Concluding Remarks ............................................. References ..................................................... 57 59 63 94 97 10 11 21 V vi Conrents The Development of Memory: Knowing. Knowing About Knowing. and Knowing How to Know ANN L . BROWN I . Introduction .................................................... I1. A Taxonomy of Memory Tasks an