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Repacholi, Betty M.; Meltzoff, Andrew N. – Child Development, 2007
Two experiments examined whether 18-month-olds learn from emotions directed to a third party. Infants watched an adult perform actions on objects, and an Emoter expressed Anger or Neutral affect toward the adult in response to her actions. The Emoter then became neutral and infants were given access to the objects. Infants' actions were influenced…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Psychological Patterns, Affective Behavior
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Cavanaugh, John C.; Perlmutter, Marion – Child Development, 1982
This paper provides a critical examination of the current status of metamemory. First, review of background influences and a critique of conceptualizations of metamemory are presented. Next, research methods are examined, and empirical results concerning the relationship between metamemory and memory are reviewed. Finally, several suggestions are…
Descriptors: Background, Literature Reviews, Memory, Research Methodology
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Geary, David C.; Hoard, Mary K.; Byrd-Craven, Jennifer; Nugent, Lara; Numtee, Chattavee – Child Development, 2007
Using strict and lenient mathematics achievement cutoff scores to define a learning disability, respective groups of children who are math disabled (MLD, n = 15) and low achieving (LA, n = 44) were identified. These groups and a group of typically achieving (TA, n = 46) children were administered a battery of mathematical cognition, working…
Descriptors: Memory, Mathematics Achievement, Learning Disabilities, Disability Identification
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Frank, Hallie S.; Rabinovitch, M. Sam – Child Development, 1974
The stimulus suffix paradigm was employed to evaluate whether attributes of the precategorical acoustic storage system in children undergo significant changes with age. (ST)
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Elementary School Students, Males, Memory
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Maurer, Daphne; And Others – Child Development, 1979
Tests Piaget's interpretation of long-term memory improvement among 82 five- and six-year-old children. Concludes that there is little evidence for long-term memory improvement or for Piaget's theory of memory. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Memory
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Yussen, Steven R.; And Others – Child Development, 1974
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Elementary School Students, Memory, Perceptual Development
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Johnson, Lucie R.; And Others – Child Development, 1979
Reports three experiments which investigated the ability of children aged four to nine years to organize body-location information in recall. Attempted to correct for methodological confounding in previous similar research. (JMB)
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Processes, Freehand Drawing, Human Body
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Weissberg, Jill A.; Paris, Scott G. – Child Development, 1986
Extends and replicates the 1948 Soviet study by Istomina that examined the age at which children use deliberate strategies to aid recall and the effect that task context has on remembering. Subjects were 3- to 7-year-old children. Istomina's results were not replicated in this study. (HOD)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Stages