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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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Aldridge, Victoria; Dovey, Terence M.; Halford, Jason C. G. – Developmental Review, 2009
The rise in inadequate and unhealthily diets in children has led investigations to examine the development of food preferences. This review outlines the ways in which children choose between foods made available to them and the subsequent shaping of their own habitual diet. Children are liable to form preferences to certain hedonic foods, and to…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Associative Learning, Eating Habits, Social Environment
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Howe, Mark L.; Wimmer, Marina C.; Gagnon, Nadine; Plumpton, Shannon – Journal of Memory and Language, 2009
The effects of associative strength and gist relations on rates of children's and adults' true and false memories were examined in three experiments. Children aged 5-11 and university-aged adults participated in a standard Deese/Roediger-McDermott false memory task using DRM and category lists in two experiments and in the third, children…
Descriptors: Cues, Semantics, College Students, Children