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Development of the Use of Conversational Cues to Assess Reality Status
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Woolley, Jacqueline D.; Ma, Lili; Lopez-Mobilia, Gabriel – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2011
In this study, the authors assessed children's ability to use information overheard in other people's conversations to judge the reality status of a novel entity. Three- to 9-year-old children (N = 101) watched video clips in which two adults conversed casually about a novel being. Videos contained statements that explicitly denied, explicitly…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Cues, Child Development, Children
Naturalistic Experience and the Early Use of Symbolic Artifacts
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Troseth, Georgene L.; Casey, Amy M.; Lawver, Kelly A.; Walker, Joan M. T.; Cole, David A. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2007
Experience with a variety of symbolic artifacts has been proposed as a mechanism underlying symbolic development. In this study, the parents of 120 2-year-old children who participated in symbolic object retrieval tasks completed a questionnaire regarding their children's naturalistic experience with symbolic artifacts and activities. In separate…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Identification, Birth Order, Young Children