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Hines, Caitlin T.; Padilla, Christina M.; Ryan, Rebecca M. – Child Development, 2020
The present study examines variation in the effect of birth weight on children's early cognitive and socioemotional outcomes by family socioeconomic status (SES). It is hypothesized that not only will lower birth weight children display worse cognitive and socioemotional outcomes prior to school entry, as prior research has found, but that effects…
Descriptors: Body Weight, Birth, Preschool Children, Social Development
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Cabrera, Natasha J.; Moon, Ui; Fagan, Jay; West, Jerry; Aldoney, Daniela – Child Development, 2020
This paper used the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort (N = 1,258) to examine the influence of hilevels of cognitive stimulation from mothers, fathers, and childcare providers at 24 months and children's pre-academic skills at 48 and 60 months in two parent families. Results from path analysis showed direct positive effects of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Stimulation, Family Environment, Parent Child Relationship
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Coley, John D. – Child Development, 2012
Category-based induction requires selective use of different relations to guide inferences; this article examines the development of inferences based on ecological relations among living things. Three hundred and forty-six 6-, 8-, and 10-year-old children from rural, suburban, and urban communities projected novel "diseases" or "insides" from one…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Urban Areas, Inferences, Cognitive Development