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Sarah C. Creel – Child Development, 2025
How does one assess developmental change when the measures themselves change with development? Most developmental studies of word learning use either looking (infants) or pointing (preschoolers and older). With little empirical evidence of the relationship between the two measures, developmental change is difficult to assess. This paper analyzes…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition, Accuracy
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Savic, Olivera; Unger, Layla; Sloutsky, Vladimir M. – Child Development, 2023
With development knowledge becomes organized according to semantic links, including early-developing associative (e.g., juicy-apple) and gradually developing taxonomic links (e.g., apple-pear). Word co-occurrence regularities may foster these links: Associative links may form from direct co-occurrence (e.g., juicy-apple), and taxonomic links from…
Descriptors: Semantics, Language Acquisition, Child Development, Taxonomy
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Engle, Jae; Baker-Harvey, Hazel; Nguyen, Hieu-Kevin; Carney, Hunter; Stavropoulos, Katherine; Carver, Leslie J. – Child Development, 2021
The ability to learn from expectations is foundational to social and nonsocial learning in children. However, we know little about the brain basis of reward expectation in development. Here, 3- to 4-year-olds (N = 26) were shown a passive associative learning paradigm with dynamic stimuli. Anticipation for reward-related stimuli was measured via…
Descriptors: Brain, Preschool Children, Stimuli, Rewards
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Barutchu, Ayla; Fifer, Joanne M.; Shivdasani, Mohit N.; Crewther, Sheila G.; Paolini, Antonio G. – Child Development, 2020
This study assessed the developmental profile of unisensory and multisensory processes, and their contribution to children's intellectual abilities (8- and 11-year olds, N = 38, compared to adults, N = 19) using a simple audiovisual detection task and three incidental associative learning tasks with different sensory signals: visual-verbal with…
Descriptors: Multisensory Learning, Associative Learning, Intelligence Quotient, Cognitive Ability
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Lee, Joshua K.; Wendelken, Carter; Bunge, Silvia A.; Ghetti, Simona – Child Development, 2016
This research investigated whether episodic memory development can be explained by improvements in relational binding processes, involved in forming novel associations between events and the context in which they occurred. Memory for item-space, item-time, and item-item relations was assessed in an ethnically diverse sample of 151 children aged…
Descriptors: Memory, Children, Young Adults, Standardized Tests
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MacKenzie, Heather; Curtin, Suzanne; Graham, Susan A. – Child Development, 2012
This study examined whether 12-month-olds will accept words that differ phonologically and phonetically from their native language as object labels in an associative learning task. Sixty infants were presented with sets of English word-object (N = 30), Japanese word-object (N = 15), or Czech word-object (N = 15) pairings until they habituated.…
Descriptors: Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Associative Learning, Slavic Languages, Infants
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Sloutsky, Vladimir M.; Fisher, Anna V. – Child Development, 2008
Young children often exhibit flexible behaviors relying on different kinds of information in different situations. This flexibility has been traditionally attributed to conceptual knowledge. Reported research demonstrates that flexibility can be acquired implicitly and it does not require conceptual knowledge. In Experiment 1, 4- to 5-year-olds…
Descriptors: Young Children, Child Behavior, Attention, Concept Formation
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Carneiro, Paula; Albuquerque, Pedro; Fernandez, Angel; Esteves, Francisco – Child Development, 2007
Two experiments attempted to resolve previous contradictory findings concerning developmental trends in false memories within the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) paradigm by using an improved methodology--constructing age-appropriate associative lists. The research also extended the DRM paradigm to preschoolers. Experiment 1 (N = 320) included…
Descriptors: Preadolescents, Models, Age Differences, Preschool Children