Episodic future thinking in 35-, 47-, and 55-month-old children

The trip task has been used as a verbal test for examining preschool children’s episodic future thinking. However, the only existing study using merely examined 3-year-olds. In order to investigate how projections develop, we total of 241 children in three age groups (35-, 47-, and 55-month-olds). As expected, results revealed developmental progression with older outperforming their younger peers. obtained correspond evidence behavioral tasks, thereby underscores robustness previous findings showing that ability project oneself into undergoes marked development from 3 5 years age. addition, more specifically, presented here when considered together other evidence, may suggest hitherto neglected spurt around 3.5- 4-years relation thinking, calling further research this range.