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Direct linkBrainerd, C. J.; Reyna, V. F. – Developmental Review, 2012
A hoary assumption of the law is that children are more prone to false-memory reports than adults, and hence, their testimony is less reliable than adults'. Since the 1980s, that assumption has been buttressed by numerous studies that detected declines in false memory between early childhood and young adulthood under controlled conditions.…
Descriptors: Children, Reliability, Court Litigation, Memory
Peer reviewedKahn, Peter H., Jr. – Developmental Review, 1997
Reviews literature on biophilia hypothesis that children have fundamental, genetically based propensity to affiliate with other living organisms. Identifies three concerns: (1) genetic basis of biophilia; (2) existence of seemingly negative affiliations with nature; and (3) quality of supporting evidence. Presents structural-developmental approach…
Descriptors: Affiliation Need, Child Development, Children, Developmental Psychology
Peer reviewedMarkovits, Henry; Barrouillet, Pierre – Developmental Review, 2002
Proposes a variant of mental model theory which suggests that the development of conditional reasoning (if--then) can be explained by such factors as the capacity of working memory, range of knowledge available to a reasoner, and his/her ability to access this knowledge "on-line." Finds much empirical data explained by this model.…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adolescents, Children, Individual Development
Peer reviewedJosephs, Ingrid E.; Fuhrer, Urs – Developmental Review, 1998
Examines Simmel's principle of cultivation whereby the cultivated mind is constructed through ongoing transactions of people with their cultural environment, cultural forms currently overlooked. Cultural forms result from externalizations of former person-culture transactions. Argues that development is structured through person-culture…
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Cognitive Development, Cultural Context
Masche, J. Gowert; van Dulmen, Manfred H. M. – Developmental Review, 2004
Based on Schaie's (1965) general developmental model, various data-driven and theory-based approaches to the exploration and disentangling of age, cohort, and time effects on human behavior have emerged. This paper presents and discusses an advancement of data-driven interpretations that stresses parsimony when interpreting the results of…
Descriptors: Sequential Approach, Time, Individual Development, Age Differences
Peer reviewedEckstein, Shulamith Graus – Developmental Review, 2000
Extends dynamic model of cognitive growth proposed by van Geert in three directions: (1) added a term to consider exposure to material to be learned; (2) developed method to apply model to cross-sectional studies; and (3) developed procedure to scale cognitive abilities tests with items of varying difficulty. Tests model with 2- to 15-year-olds'…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development
