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Young Children's Interpretation of Multidigit Number Names: From Emerging Competence to Mastery
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Mix, Kelly S.; Prather, Richard W.; Smith, Linda B.; Stockton, Jerri DaSha – Child Development, 2014
This study assessed whether a sample of two hundred seven 3- to 7-year-olds could interpret multidigit numerals using simple identification and comparison tasks. Contrary to the view that young children do not understand place value, even 3-year-olds demonstrated some competence on these tasks. Ceiling was reached by first grade. When training was…
Descriptors: Young Children, Numeracy, Mathematical Concepts, Symbolic Learning
Epistemic Trust and Education: Effects of Informant Reliability on Student Learning of Decimal Concepts
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Durkin, Kelley; Shafto, Patrick – Child Development, 2016
The epistemic trust literature emphasizes that children's evaluations of informants' trustworthiness affects learning, but there is no evidence that epistemic trust affects learning in academic domains. The current study investigated how reliability affects decimal learning. Fourth and fifth graders (N = 122; M[subscript age] = 10.1 years)…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Trust (Psychology), Child Development, Reliability
Children's Understanding of Knowledge Acquisition: The Tendency for Children to Report That They Have Always Known What They Have Just Learned.
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Taylor, Marjorie; And Others – Child Development, 1994
Four experiments investigated children's ability to notice and remember events in which the acquisition of factual information occurs. Results indicated that children tend to report they have known newly learned information for a long time, suggesting that children have some understanding of knowledge acquisition, but not at the level of adults.…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
The Mind's "I": Children's Conception of the Mind as an Active Agent.
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Wellman, Henry M.; Hickling, Anne K. – Child Development, 1994
Presents the results of three studies examining children's conception of the mind itself as an independent, active entity. Findings revealed a developing ability in children to interpret and produce statements personifying the mind and provided considerable evidence of children's movement toward a conception of the mind as an active agent…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Developing Theories of Mind: Understanding Concepts and Relations between Mental Activities.
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Schwanenflugel, Paula J.; And Others – Child Development, 1994
Examined 8- and 10-year olds' understanding of the unique features of and potential relations among mental activities. Found a developing tendency to organize mental activities on the degree to which memory was a component of the activity. Results suggest that a constructivist theory of mind develops in later childhood. (AA)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Child Development, Children, Cognitive Development
Seeing Is Believing: Children's Explanations of Commonplace, Magical, and Extraordinary Transformations.
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Rosengren, Karl S.; Hickling, Anne K. – Child Development, 1994
Children's magical explanations and beliefs were investigated in two studies. Found that many four-year olds view magic as a plausible mechanism, yet reserve magical explanations for certain real world events that violate their causal expectations. Parents and culture at large may at first actively support magical beliefs whereas peers and schools…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Attribution Theory, Beliefs, Child Development