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Muris, Peter; Field, Andy P. – Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 2010
Rachman's ("Behaviour Research and Therapy" 15:372-387, 1977; "Clinical Psychology Review" 11:155-173, 1991) three pathways theory proposed that childhood fears not only arise as a consequence of direct learning experiences, but can also be elicited by means of threat information transmission. This review looks at the scientific evidence for this…
Descriptors: Fear, Children, Role, Learning Experience
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Crowley, Kevin; Shrager, Jeff; Siegler, Robert S. – Developmental Review, 1997
Discusses metacognitive and associative models of children's strategy discovery and use. Contends that models based on only one type of mechanism cannot entirely account for observed variability and constraint revealed by microgenetic studies of children's strategy change. Proposes a new model of children's strategy development in which…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Children, Cognitive Development, Individual Differences
Halford, Graeme S. – 1996
Explicit representation of relations plays some role in virtually all higher cognitive processes, but relational knowledge has seldom been investigated systematically. This paper considers how relational knowledge is involved in some tasks that have been important to cognitive development, including transitivity, the balance scale, classification…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Children, Classification, Cognitive Processes
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Diaz-Guerrero, R. – Human Development, 1979
Discusses the meaning of coping style and reviews research tasks which appear to be particularly sensitive measures of cross-cultural differences in active-passive coping style. (SS)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Assertiveness, Associative Learning, Children