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Peer reviewedAstington, Janet Wilde – Child Development, 2001
Offers suggestions for future investigations of theory-of-mind development. Maintains that there needs to be: (1) greater focus on the development of understanding of desire and intention; (2) research on the role of language in theory-of-mind development integrating representational-development and social-interaction views; and (3) investigation…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Children, Cognitive Development, Intention
Peer reviewedYouniss, James – Child Development, 1974
Deaf children, seven to thirteen years old, were observed on concrete, transitional and formal operational tasks ranging from dual classification to combinatorial reasoning. Results were related to number of years of schooling. (ST)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cognitive Development, Deafness, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewedBigler, Rebecca S. – Child Development, 1995
Investigated the effect of using gender as a functional category in elementary school students' gender stereotyping. Results support the idea that the functional use of gender categories leads to increases in gender stereotyping, particularly among those children with less-advanced classification skills. Advanced classification skills proved to…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Children, Classification, Cognitive Development
