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Tracking What Went Where across Toddlerhood: Feature-Location Bound Object Representations in 2- to 3-Year-Olds' Working Memory
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Kibbe, Melissa M.; Applin, Jessica B. – Child Development, 2022
Two experiments examined the development of the ability to encode, maintain, and update integrated representations of occluded objects' locations and featural identities in working memory across toddlerhood. Sixty-eight 28- to 40-month-old US toddlers (13 Asian or Pacific Islander, 6 Black, 48 White, 1 multiracial; 40 girls; tested between…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Short Term Memory, Visual Perception, Child Development
Does It Matter How We Speak about Social Kinds? A Large, Preregistered, Online Experimental Study of How Language Shapes the Development of Essentialist Beliefs
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Leshin, Rachel A.; Leslie, Sarah-Jane; Rhodes, Marjorie – Child Development, 2021
A problematic way to think about social categories is to essentialize them--to treat particular differences between people as marking fundamentally distinct social kinds. From where do these beliefs arise? Language that expresses generic claims about categories elicits some aspects of essentialism, but the scope of these effects remains unclear.…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Beliefs, Childrens Attitudes, Young Children
Referential Communication Accuracy between Mother and Child as a Predictor of Cognitive Development in the United States and Japan.
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Dickson, W. Patrick; And Others – Child Development, 1979
Referential communication accuracy of mother and child pairs when the children were four years old predicted children's cognitive development one and two years later in the United States and Japan. Main effects were found to be significant even when mother IQ, SES, and child ability at age four were partialled out of the analysis. (JMB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Communication (Thought Transfer), Foreign Countries, Mothers
Same Beginnings, Different Stories: A Comparison of American and Chinese Children's Narratives.
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Wang, Qi; Leichtman, Michelle D. – Child Development, 2000
Examined social, emotional, and cognitive characteristics of American and Chinese 6-year-olds' narratives. Found that, compared to American children, Chinese children showed greater orientation toward social engagement, greater concern with moral correctness, greater concern with authority, a less autonomous orientation, more expressions of…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies
Distributive Justice Development: Cross-Cultural, Contextual, and Longitudinal Evaluations.
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Enright, Robert D.; And Others – Child Development, 1984
Study One examined Swedish and American children's understanding of what constitutes fair criteria for the distribution of goods (i.e., distributive justice). Study Two compared children's distributive justice in family and peer contexts, and Study Three attempted a longitudinal assessment of distributive justice reasoning in two different…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Development, Context Effect
U.S. and Korean Children's Comprehension of Fraction Names: A Reexamination of Cross-National Differences.
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Paik, Jae H.; Mix, Kelly S. – Child Development, 2003
Two experiments tested claim that transparency of Korean fraction names promotes fraction concepts. Findings indicated that U.S. and Korean first- and second-graders erred similarly on a fraction-identification task, by treating fractions as whole numbers. Korean children performed at chance when whole-number representation was included but…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies