Road-safety education: Spatial decentering and subjective or objective picture processing

Ergonomics

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1702-1712

  Guercin, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

Author keywords

Child pedestrian education; Cognitive development; Decentering; Learning from pictures; Picture integration

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; EDUCATION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; RISK PERCEPTION;

CHILD PEDESTRIAN EDUCATION; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; DECENTERING; PICTURE INTEGRATION; ROAD-SAFETY EDUCATION;

ERGONOMICS;

ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD SAFETY; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; COMPREHENSION; EDUCATION PROGRAM; EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY; ERGONOMICS; FEMALE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; LEARNING STYLE; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; SCHOOL CHILD; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHRONOLOGY AS TOPIC; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; PHOTOGRAPHY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK-TAKING; SAFETY; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TEACHING; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WALKING;

EID: 35148815003     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: 13665847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00140130701587343     Document Type: Article

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