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Memories of Structured Input Become Increasingly Distorted across Development
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Forest, Tess Allegra; Abolghasem, Zahra; Finn, Amy S.; Schlichting, Margaret L. – Child Development, 2023
Trajectories of cognitive and neural development suggest that, despite early emergence, the ability to extract environmental patterns changes across childhood. Here, 5- to 9-year-olds and adults (N = 211, 110 females, in a large Canadian city) completed a memory test assessing what they remembered after watching a stream of shape triplets: the…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Memory, Tests
Gesture and Symbolic Representation in Italian and English-Speaking Canadian 2-Year-Olds
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Marentette, Paula; Pettenati, Paola; Bello, Arianna; Volterra, Virginia – Child Development, 2016
Analyses of elicited pantomime, primarily of English-speaking children, show that preschool-aged children are more likely to symbolically represent an object with gestures depicting an object's form rather than its function. In contrast, anecdotal reports of spontaneous gesture production in younger children suggest that children use multiple…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Child Development, Italian, English
Early Nonparental Care and Social Behavior in Elementary School: Support for a Social Group Adaptation Hypothesis
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Pingault, Jean-Baptiste; Tremblay, Richard E.; Vitaro, Frank; Japel, Christa; Boivin, Michel; Côté, Sylvana M. – Child Development, 2015
This study examined the contribution of nonparental child-care services received during the preschool years to the development of social behavior between kindergarten and the end of elementary school with a birth cohort from Québec, Canada (N = 1,544). Mothers reported on the use of child-care services, while elementary school teachers rated…
Descriptors: Child Care, Preschool Children, Kindergarten, Elementary School Students
Is the Secure Base Phenomenon Evident Here, There, and Anywhere? A Cross-Cultural Study of Child Behavior and Experts' Definitions
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Posada, German; Lu, Ting; Trumbell, Jill; Kaloustian, Garene; Trudel, Marcel; Plata, Sandra J.; Peña, Paola P.; Perez, Jennifer; Tereno, Susana; Dugravier, Romain; Coppola, Gabrielle; Constantini, Alessandro; Cassibba, Rosalinda; Kondo-Ikemura, Kiyomi; Nóblega, Magaly; Haya, Ines M.; Pedraglio, Claudia; Verissimo, Manuela; Santos, Antonio J.; Monteiro, Ligia; Lay, Keng-Ling – Child Development, 2013
The evolutionary rationale offered by Bowlby implies that secure base relationships are common in child-caregiver dyads and thus, child secure behavior observable across diverse social contexts and cultures. This study offers a test of the universality hypothesis. Trained observers in nine countries used the Attachment Q-set to describe the…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Child Behavior, Caregiver Child Relationship, Child Development
The Moving Window Technique: A Window into Developmental Changes in Attention during Facial Emotion Recognition
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Birmingham, Elina; Meixner, Tamara; Iarocci, Grace; Kanan, Christopher; Smilek, Daniel; Tanaka, James W. – Child Development, 2013
The strategies children employ to selectively attend to different parts of the face may reflect important developmental changes in facial emotion recognition. Using the Moving Window Technique (MWT), children aged 5-12 years and adults ("N" = 129) explored faces with a mouse-controlled window in an emotion recognition task. An…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Recognition (Psychology), Child Development, Human Body
The Development of Young Children of Immigrants in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States
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Washbrook, Elizabeth; Waldfogel, Jane; Bradbury, Bruce; Corak, Miles; Ghanghro, Ali A. – Child Development, 2012
In spite of important differences in some of the resources immigrant parents have to invest in their children, and in immigrant selection rules and settlement policies, there are significant similarities in the relative positions of 4- and 5-year-old children of immigrants in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Children…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Foreign Countries, Official Languages, Child Development
"When I Was Little": Childhood Recollections in Chinese and European Canadian Grade School Children
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Peterson, Carole; Wang, Qi; Hou, Yubo – Child Development, 2009
Recollection of early childhood experiences was investigated in 225 European Canadian and 133 Chinese children (ages 8, 11, and 14) by a memory fluency task that measured accessibility of multiple early memories and elicited the earliest memory. Younger children provided memories of events that occurred at earlier ages than older children.…
Descriptors: Young Children, Cultural Differences, Memory, Whites
Children's Understanding of the Modal Expression of Speaker Certainty and Uncertainty and Its Relation to the Development of a Representational Theory of Mind.
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Moore, Chris; And Others – Child Development, 1990
Two studies showed that children of about four years of age had begun to understand that beliefs may be held with differing degrees of certainty. This understanding was tied to the children's understanding of the nature of beliefs and the distinction between appearance and reality. (PCB)
Descriptors: Beliefs, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Foreign Countries
Infant Tests as Predictors of Cognitive and Language Development at Two Years.
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Siegel, Linda S. – Child Development, 1981
Assesses ability of infant tests to predict language and cognitive development and to detect infants at risk for developmental problems. The Bayley Mental Development Index was particularly capable of detecting infants at risk for developmental delay. The Caldwell Inventory of Home Stimulation identified home environment as a key factor in…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Family Environment, Foreign Countries
Children's Recall of Aggressive and Withdrawn Behaviors: Recognition Memory and Likability Judgments.
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Younger, Alastair J.; Piccinin, Andrea M. – Child Development, 1989
This study examined children's recognition memory for descriptions of maladjusted behaviors displayed by hypothetical peers. Children were also asked about the desirability of these hypothetical peers as friends. (PCB)
Descriptors: Aggression, Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Child Development