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Kirk, Elizabeth; Howlett, Neil; Pine, Karen J.; Fletcher, Ben C. – Child Development, 2013
Findings are presented from the first randomized control trial of the effects of encouraging symbolic gesture (or "baby sign") on infant language, following 40 infants from age 8 months to 20 months. Half of the mothers were trained to model a target set of gestures to their infants. Frequent measures were taken of infant language…
Descriptors: Infants, Sign Language, Language Acquisition, Child Language
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Peterson, Carole; Warren, Kelly L.; Short, Megan M. – Child Development, 2011
Although infantile amnesia has been investigated for many years in adults, only recently has it been investigated in children. This study was a 2-year follow-up and extension of an earlier study. Children (4-13 years old) were asked initially and 2 years later for their earliest 3 memories. At follow-up, their age at the time of these memories…
Descriptors: Cues, Comparative Analysis, Memory, Children
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Simcock, Gabrielle; Garrity, Kara; Barr, Rachel – Child Development, 2011
Infants can imitate a novel action sequence from television and picture books, yet there has been no direct comparison of infants' imitation from the 2 types of media. Varying the narrative cues available during the demonstration and test, the current experiments measured 18- and 24-month-olds' imitation from television and picture books. Infants…
Descriptors: Cues, Picture Books, Imitation, Infants
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Corriveau, Kathleen H.; Harris, Paul L.; Meins, Elizabeth; Fernyhough, Charles; Arnott, Bronia; Elliott, Lorna; Liddle, Beth; Hearn, Alexandra; Vittorini, Lucia; de Rosnay, Marc – Child Development, 2009
In a longitudinal study of attachment, children (N = 147) aged 50 and 61 months heard their mother and a stranger make conflicting claims. In 2 tasks, the available perceptual cues were equally consistent with either person's claim but children generally accepted the mother's claims over those of the stranger. In a 3rd task, the perceptual cues…
Descriptors: Cues, Mothers, Attachment Behavior, Trust (Psychology)
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Odegard, Timothy N.; Cooper, Crystal M.; Lampinen, James M.; Reyna, Valerie F.; Brainerd, Charles J. – Child Development, 2009
The present research examined the influence of prior knowledge on children's free recall, cued recall, recognition memory, and source memory judgments for a series of similar real-life events. Forty children (5-12 years old) attended 4 thematic birthday parties and were later interviewed about the events that transpired during the parties using…
Descriptors: Child Development, Memory, Prior Learning, Recognition (Psychology)
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Parish-Morris, Julia; Hennon, Elizabeth A.; Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy; Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick; Tager-Flusberg, Helen – Child Development, 2007
To what extent do children with autism (AD) versus typically developing children (TD) rely on attentional and intentional cues to learn words? Four experiments compared 17 AD children (M age = 5.08 years) with 17 language- and 17 mental-age-matched TD children (M ages = 2.57 and 3.12 years, respectively) on nonverbal enactment and word-learning…
Descriptors: Intention, Cues, Autism, Vocabulary Development
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Sophian, C.; Huber, A. – Child Development, 1984
Early developmental changes in children's understanding of causality were examined in two studies of three and five year olds' causal judgments. In both studies, children were asked to judge which of two stimuli caused an observed event across a series of problems providing a variety of alternative cues. (Author)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Cues
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Kropp, Joseph P.; Haynes, O. Maurice – Child Development, 1987
A group of 20 abusive mothers and a group of 20 matched, nonabusive mothers were shown slides depicting infants in seven different emotional states. Abusive mothers were more likely to incorrectly identify specific signals of emotion and to label negative affect as positive. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Child Abuse, Comparative Analysis, Cues
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Jaswal, Vikram K.; Markman, Ellen M. – Child Development, 2001
Four studies compared preschoolers' fast mapping of new proper and common names following indirect exposures requiring inference with their learning new names following ostensive cues. Found that inferential learning of names and learning by direct instruction were largely equivalent: learning from a situation with clear joint references…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Cues, Inferences
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Dapretto, Mirella; Bjork, Elizabeth L. – Child Development, 2000
Examined word retrieval in 14- to 24-month-olds. Found that children with limited productive vocabularies were less likely to produce labels of hidden objects than children with larger vocabularies, even though all could name them and did well when asked to find them. Pictorial cues facilitated word retrieval. Naming errors peaked among children…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Cues
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Krackow, Elisa; Gordon, Peter – Child Development, 1998
Examined whether superior recall of items in event-based categorical relations, or "slot fillers," remained when association and typicality were controlled. Found that only children receiving the typical + high association slot-filler list showed significantly better recall than with the taxonomic-coordinate list, with no differences…
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Associative Learning, Classification, Cognitive Development