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Direct linkGoddu, Mariel K.; Sullivan, J. Nicholas; Walker, Caren M. – Child Development, 2021
The ability to consider multiple possibilities forms the basis for a wide variety of human-unique cognitive capacities. When does this skill develop? Previous studies have narrowly focused on children's ability to prepare for incompatible future outcomes. Here, we investigate this capacity in a causal learning context. Adults (N = 109) and 18- to…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Development, Causal Models
Nyhout, Angela; Sweatman, Hilary; Ganea, Patricia A. – Child Development, 2023
Children's hypothetical reasoning about a complex and dynamic causal system was investigated. Predominantly White, middle-class 5- to 7-year-old children from the Greater Toronto Area learned about novel food chains and were asked to consider the effects of removing one species on the others. In Study 1 (N = 72; 36 females, 36 males; 2018),…
Descriptors: Childrens Attitudes, Thinking Skills, Causal Models, Systems Approach
Terri J. Sabol; Elise Chor; Teresa Eckrich Sommer; Lauren A. Tighe; P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale; Amanda Sheffield Morris; Jeanne Brooks-Gunn; Hirokazu Yoshikawa; Christopher King – Child Development, 2024
This study explores the effects of the two-generation program Career"Advance"--which combines education and training for parents in healthcare with Head Start for children--on children's academic, language, mathematics, and inhibitory control followed for 3 years. The sample (collected in Tulsa, Oklahoma from 2011 to 2018) includes 147…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Low Income Students, Social Services, Early Childhood Education
