摘要：The purpose of the present research was to study effects of experimental conditions and developmental tendency in the use of external cues in memory-for-object location in toddlers. This study consisted of two experiments. In study 1,the subjects were 12 toddlers,18 to 23 months old;in study 2,30 toddlers,24 to 41 months old. The findings showed that memory-for-object location in toddlers was different in accordance with experimental conditions;that is,memory-for-object location in the natural condition was significantly better than in the artificial condition. Effects of external cues were found;that is,memory-for-object location was best in the condition of spatial cues,and next best in the condition of picture cues,and least good in the no cue condition..
