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Carlson, Stephanie M.; Claxton, Laura J.; Moses, Louis J. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2015
A simple "expression" account of the relation between executive function (EF) and children's developing theory of mind (ToM) has difficulty accounting for the generality of the changes occurring in children's mental-state understanding during the preschool years. The current study of preschool children (N = 43) showed that EF--especially…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Theory of Mind, Correlation, Preschool Children
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Homer, Bruce D.; Petroff, Natalya; Hayward, Elizabeth O. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2013
The effects of language on symbolic functioning were examined using the "boxes task," a new symbolic understanding task based on DeLoache's model task. Children ("N" = 32; ages 2;4--3;8) observed an object being hidden in a stack of four boxes and were then asked to retrieve a similar object in the same location from a set of…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Language Usage, Age Differences, Verbal Ability
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Daley, Samantha G.; Willett, John B.; Fischer, Kurt W. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2014
This study investigated the relationship between emotional responses and reading performance in middle-school students. Although a large number of prior studies have investigated the relationship between emotion and reading, those studies have concentrated primarily on relatively static and distal measures of emotion. In this research, we measured…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Emotional Response, Middle School Students, Grade 7