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Shalev, Nir; Boettcher, Sage; Wilkinson, Hannah; Scerif, Gaia; Nobre, Anna C. – Child Development, 2022
Children's ability to benefit from spatiotemporal regularities to detect goal-relevant targets was tested in a dynamic, extended context. Young adults and children (from a low-deprivation area school in the United Kingdom; N = 80; 5-6 years; 39 female; ethics approval did not permit individual-level race/ethnicity surveying) completed a dynamic…
Descriptors: Time Perspective, Young Children, Attention, Foreign Countries
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Tillman, Katharine A.; Fukuda, Eren; Barner, David – Child Development, 2022
English-speaking adults often recruit a "mental timeline" to represent events from left-to-right (LR), but its developmental origins are debated. Here, we test whether preschoolers prefer ordered linear representations of events and whether they prefer culturally conventional directions. English-speaking adults (n = 85) and 3- to…
Descriptors: Time Perspective, Spatial Ability, Preschool Children, Cultural Differences
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Tillman, Katharine A.; Walker, Caren M. – Child Development, 2022
This study explored children's causal reasoning about the past and future. U.S. adults (n = 60) and 3-to-6-year-olds (n = 228) from an urban, middle-class population (49% female; [approximately] 45% white) participated between 2017 and 2019. Participants were told three-step causal stories and asked about the effects of a change to the second…
Descriptors: Time Perspective, Preschool Children, Thinking Skills, Logical Thinking
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Anastasio, R. Julius; Leventhal, Tama – Child Development, 2023
Moving is common during middle childhood, but links between move type and children's development are less well understood. Using nationally-representative, longitudinal data (2010-2016) of [approximately]9900 U.S. kindergarteners (52% boys, 51.48% White, 26.11% Hispanic/Latino, 10.63% Black, 11.78% Asian/Pacific Islander), we conducted…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, Children, Relocation
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Jack, Fiona; Simcock, Gabrielle; Hayne, Harlene – Child Development, 2012
This report describes the first prospective study specifically designed to assess children's verbal memory for a unique event 6 years after it occurred. Forty-six 27- to 51-month-old children took part in a unique event and were interviewed about it twice, after 24-hr and 6-year delays. During the 6-year interview, 9 children verbally recalled the…
Descriptors: Memory, Young Children, Interviews, Time Factors (Learning)
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Lagattuta, Kristin Hansen – Child Development, 2007
Two studies investigated 3- to 6-year-olds' and adults' (N= 128) knowledge about emotions and behaviors caused by thinking about the future because of the past. Participants listened to stories featuring characters that experienced negative events, and then, many days later, felt worried or changed their behaviors upon seeing an entity associated…
Descriptors: Young Children, Adults, Negative Attitudes, Gender Differences
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Orbach, Yael; Lamb, Michael E. – Child Development, 2007
Developmental differences in references to temporal attributes of allegedly experienced events were examined in 250 forensic interviews of 4- to 10-year-old alleged victims of sexual abuse. Children's ages, the specific temporal attributes referenced, and the types of memory tapped by the interviewers' questions significantly affected the quantity…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Recognition (Psychology), Sexual Abuse, Interviews