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Lillard, Angeline S.; Hopkins, Emily J.; Dore, Rebecca A.; Palmquist, Carolyn M.; Lerner, Matthew D.; Smith, Eric D. – Psychological Bulletin, 2013
We greatly appreciate the astute comments on Lillard et al. (2013) and the opportunity to reply. Here we point out the importance of keeping conceptual distinctions clear regarding play, pretend play, and exploration. We also discuss methodological issues with play research. We end with speculation that if pretend play did not emerge because it…
Descriptors: Young Children, Play, Imagination, Inquiry
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Deonna, Thierry – Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 2012
The possible deleterious role of febrile seizures on development is an old issue. It took a long time to realize that impaired development or occurrence of chronic epilepsy affected a very small minority of children with febrile seizures. These children either had pre-existing brain damage, specific genetic epileptic conditions, or seizure-induced…
Descriptors: Brain, Preschool Children, Epilepsy, Seizures
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Gomez, Juan-Carlos – Child Development, 2007
This article presents a tentatively "balanced" view (i.e., midway between lean and rich interpretations) of pointing behavior in infants and apes, based upon the notion of intentional reading of behavior without simultaneous attribution of unobservable mental states. This can account for the complexity of infant pointing without attributing…
Descriptors: Infants, Cognitive Development, Primatology, Nonverbal Communication
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Stephenson, Margaret E. – NAMTA Journal, 2000
Discusses the four planes of development and the periods of creation and crystallization within each plane. Identifies the type of independence that should be achieved by the end of the first two planes of development. Maintains that it is through individual work on the environment that one achieves independence. (KB)
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Child Development, Children, Cognitive Development
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Glassman, Michael; Whaley, Kimberlee – Early Child Development and Care, 1999
Compared the impact of a small box emitting sounds in response to nearby motion introduced into an infant/toddler and a preschool classroom to illustrate qualitative differences in how children of different ages recognize the same objects as mediating devices for activity. Found that the box became a social object for infants/toddlers and part of…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Cognitive Development, Educational Theories, Infants
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Lockman, Jeffrey J. – Child Development, 2000
Maintains that advances in the literature on perception-action development suggests that tool use may be a more continuous developmental achievement than previously believed. Suggests new research directions, including efforts to investigate the processes by which children detect and relate affordances between objects, coordinate spatial frames of…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Child Development, Children, Cognitive Development
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Marcovitch, Stuart; Lewkowicz, David J. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2004
The articles in this collection consider one very interesting puzzle of development: U-shaped developmental functions. At some point during development, an organism might exhibit what seems like a regression from its expected developmental trajectory and, according to continuity models of development, this is aberrant. In this special issue,…
Descriptors: Developmental Psychology, Individual Development, Cognitive Development, Child Development
Singer, Elly – 2001
This paper asserts that teachers need to understand the logic of young children's behavior in their joint play and in their conflicts in order to respond sensitively, and that children construct logic-in-action (procedural knowledge) long before they are able to verbalize their logic in narratives. The basic assumption of the paper is that there…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Cognitive Development, Conflict, Conflict Resolution
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Verba, Mina – Human Development, 1994
Offers a theoretical and methodological approach to study of children's socio-cognitive interaction. Observation of object-centered activities among three age groups of children showed different modes of collaboration. Processes were similar across age groups; roots of basic peer interaction patterns reach back into infancy. Similarities across…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
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Damon, William – Human Development, 1994
Comments on Verba's ideas about collaboration in peer interaction in this issue. Praises Verba for setting new direction in the study and understanding of social processes in cognitive development and for establishing important continuities in how children communicate with peers. Notes that Verba's analyses suggest natural categories of…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
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Hixson, Michael D. – Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 2004
Drash and Tudor's argument that autism is a contingency-shaped disorder of verbal behavior is logical and consistent with behavioral principles, but the argument's premises have no direct empirical support and some conflicting evidence. The quantity and quality of research needed to support such a theory is compared to that found in the area of…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Social Development, Antisocial Behavior, Autism
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Schickedanz, Judith A. – Childhood Education, 1994
Examines the impact of Jean Piaget's cognitive-developmental theories on educators' views of child socialization, which argued that moral development occurred late in childhood. Notes that recent research indicates that moral and emotional development occur much earlier and that teachers and parents can have a significant influence on young…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Child Behavior, Cognitive Development, Early Childhood Education
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Fein, Greta G.; Fryer, Mary G. – Developmental Review, 1995
Response to article by Bornstein and Tamis-LeMonda in this same issue. Delimits the faults of the ethological, scaffolding, and attachment theories in assessing maternal effects on children's symbolic play. Concludes that environmental influences are important to, but are not necessarily the sole cause of, child behavior. (JW)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Child Behavior, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes