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Negen, James; Heywood-Everett, Edward; Roome, Hannah E.; Nardini, Marko – Developmental Science, 2018
Using landmarks and other scene features to recall locations from new viewpoints is a critical skill in spatial cognition. In an immersive virtual reality task, we asked children 3.5-4.5 years old to remember the location of a target using various cues. On some trials they could use information from their own self-motion. On some trials they could…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Recall (Psychology), Age Differences, Task Analysis
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Khlomov, K. D.; Kondrashkin, A. V.; Kuzin, P. A.; Kalyakina, S. M.; Tyulkanova, K. I.; Medvedev, D. P. – Russian Education & Society, 2018
This article addresses the need for changes in current views on adolescent development. It presents observations of adolescent behavior in the online game Dragon Nest that were conducted by specialists from the Crossroads Center for Social and Psychological Adaptation and Adolescent Development, Moscow State University of Psychology and Education,…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Behavior, Video Games, Social Theories
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Masten, Carrie L.; Eisenberger, Naomi I.; Pfeifer, Jennifer H.; Colich, Natalie L.; Dapretto, Mirella – Child Development, 2013
Links among concurrent and longitudinal changes in pubertal development and empathic ability from ages 10 to 13 and neural responses while witnessing peer rejection at age 13 were examined in 16 participants. More advanced pubertal development at age 13, and greater longitudinal increases in pubertal development, related to increased activity in…
Descriptors: Peer Acceptance, Rejection (Psychology), Peer Relationship, Puberty
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Freudenthal, Daniel; Pine, Julian M.; Gobet, Fernand – Journal of Child Language, 2007
P. Bloom's (1990) data on subject omission are often taken as strong support for the view that child language can be explained in terms of full competence coupled with processing limitations in production. This paper examines whether processing limitations in learning may provide a more parsimonious explanation of the data without the need to…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Processing
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Sheehy, N. P.; Wylie, J. W.; McGuinness, C.; Orchard, G. – Environmental Education Research, 2000
Describes the development and use of two computer simulations for investigating systems thinking and environmental problem-solving in children (n=92). Finds that older children outperformed younger children, who tended to exhibit magical thinking. Suggests that seemingly isomorphic environmental problems may not be interpreted as such by children.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Computer Simulation, Computer Uses in Education