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Different Executive Functions Support Different Kinds of Cognitive Flexibility: Evidence from 2-, 3-, and 4-Year-Olds
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Blakey, Emma; Visser, Ingmar; Carroll, Daniel J. – Child Development, 2016
Improvements in cognitive flexibility during the preschool years have been linked to developments in both working memory and inhibitory control, though the precise contribution of each remains unclear. In the current study, one hundred and twenty 2-, 3-, and 4-year-olds completed two rule-switching tasks. In one version, children switched rules in…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Preschool Children, Short Term Memory, Conceptual Tempo
Some Methodological Problems in Reflection-Impulsivity Research
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Ault, Ruth L.; And Others – Child Development, 1976
Two statistical characteristics of the Matching Familiar Figures test which produce methodological problems in reflection-impulsivity research are discussed. (BRT)
Descriptors: Conceptual Tempo, Elementary Education, Research Methodology, Research Problems