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Spencer, John P. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7320-144X and Schutte, Anne R.
(2004)
Unifying representations and responses: Perseverative biases arise from a single behavioral system.
Psychological Science, 15 (3).
pp. 187-193.
ISSN 0956-7976
Abstract
A dominant account of perseverative errors in early development contends that such errors reflect a failure to inhibit a prepotent response. This study investigated whether perseveration might also arise from a failure to inhibit a prepotent representation. Children watched as a toy was hidden at an A location, waited during a delay, and then watched the experimenter find the toy. After six observation-only A trials, the toy was hidden at a B location, and children were allowed to search for the toy. Two- and 4-year-olds' responses on the B trials were significantly biased toward A even though they had never overtly responded to this location. Thus, perseverative biases in early development can arise as a result of prepotent representations, demonstrating that the prepotent-response account is incomplete. We discuss three alternative interpretations of these results, including the possibility that representational and response-based biases reflect the operation of a single, integrated behavioral system.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Psychology |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Developmental Science |
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| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Nov 2015 17:02 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Aug 2023 14:30 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/55273 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.0956-7976.2004.01503007.x |
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