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Thiessen, Erik D. – Child Development, 2011
All theories of language development suggest that learning is constrained. However, theories differ on whether these constraints arise from language-specific processes or have domain-general origins such as the characteristics of human perception and information processing. The current experiments explored constraints on statistical learning of…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Infants, Information Processing, Language Acquisition
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Arsenio, William F.; Adams, Erin; Gold, Jason – Child Development, 2009
Connections between adolescents' social information processing (SIP), moral reasoning, and emotion attributions and their reactive and proactive aggressive tendencies were assessed. One hundred mostly African American and Latino 13- to 18-year-olds from a low-socioeconomic-status (SES) urban community and their high school teachers participated.…
Descriptors: Aggression, Adolescents, Verbal Ability, Secondary School Teachers
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Lobo, Michele A.; Galloway, James C. – Child Development, 2008
The effects of 3 weeks of social (control), postural, or object-oriented experiences on 9- to 21-week-old infants' (N = 42) reaching, exploration, and means-end behaviors were assessed. Coders recorded object contacts, mouthing, fingering, attention, and affect from video. Postural and object-oriented experiences advanced reaching, haptic…
Descriptors: Infants, Social Experience, Information Processing, Development
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Nummenmaa, Lauri; Peets, Katlin; Salmivalli, Christina – Child Development, 2008
This study provides experimental evidence for automatic, relationship-specific social information processing in 13-year-old adolescents. Photographs of participants' liked, disliked, and unknown peers were used as primes in an affective priming task with happy and angry facial expression probes and in a hypothetical vignette task. For the…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Adolescents, Cognitive Processes, Information Processing