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Peer reviewedRichards, D. Dean; Siegler, Robert S. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1986
Describes three experiments that examined how children (4- to 11-year-olds) use their knowledge of the attributes of living things to infer whether particular objects are alive. (HOD)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Attribution Theory, Biological Sciences
Peer reviewedDix, Theodore; And Others – Child Development, 1986
Proposes and tests an attributional model of parent social cognition and examines parents'inferences about why everyday child behaviors occur and what consequences these inferences may have for socialization. (HOD)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attribution Theory, Behavior Development, Child Development
Peer reviewedOppenheimer, Louis – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1986
Describes two studies investigating the development of recursive thinking in 60 Dutch children five, seven, and nine years of age. The first study replicated earlier research employing a verbal production procedure. The second study used verbal comprehension procedures and concluded that development appears two years earlier than indicated by the…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
