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Verbal Imitation Is Based on Intention Understanding
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Over, Harriet; Gattis, Merideth – Cognitive Development, 2010
Using an elicited imitation paradigm, we investigated whether young children imitate the communicative intentions behind speech. Previous research using elicited imitation has shown that children tend to correct ungrammatical sentences. This finding is usually interpreted as evidence that children, like adults, remember and reproduce the gist of…
Descriptors: Sentences, Imitation, Intention, Language Processing
The Executive Demands of Strategic Reasoning are Modified by the Way in which Children are Prompted to Think About the Task: Evidence from 3- to 4-Year-Olds
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Carroll, Daniel J.; Apperly, Ian A.; Riggs, Kevin J. – Cognitive Development, 2007
We investigated a test of strategic reasoning (the Windows task) that in different studies has yielded contrasting pictures of young children's executive abilities [Russell, J., Mauthner, N., Sharpe, S., & Tidswell, T. (1991). "The 'windows task' as a measure of strategic deception in preschoolers and autistic subjects." "British Journal of…
Descriptors: Memory, Developmental Psychology, Preschool Children, Inferences
Developmental Differences in Judgments of Recency and Frequency: Quantitative or Qualitative?
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Chalmers, Kerry A.; Grogan, Melissa J. – Cognitive Development, 2006
The basis of young children's performance of judgments of recency and frequency was investigated using a modified version of Huppert and Piercy's [Huppert, F. A., & Piercy, M. (1978). The role of trace strength in recency and frequency judgements by amnesic and control subjects. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 30, 347-354]…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Individual Development, Young Children, Pictorial Stimuli