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Carroll, Daniel J.; Apperly, Ian A.; Riggs, Kevin J. – Cognitive Development, 2007
We investigated a test of strategic reasoning (the Windows task) that in different studies has yielded contrasting pictures of young children's executive abilities [Russell, J., Mauthner, N., Sharpe, S., & Tidswell, T. (1991). "The 'windows task' as a measure of strategic deception in preschoolers and autistic subjects." "British Journal of…
Descriptors: Memory, Developmental Psychology, Preschool Children, Inferences
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Kessen, William; Reznick, J. Steven – Cognitive Development, 1993
Reviews "The Epigenesis of Mind: Essays on Biology and Cognition" (S. Carey and R. Gelman, editors), a collection of essays that present a hard-scientific vision of cognitive development. Examines the arguments this work articulates and then determines the place it occupies in the analysis of the state of developmental psychology as presented in…
Descriptors: Biology, Book Reviews, Child Development, Child Psychology
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Scholnick, Ellin Kofsky; Wing, Clara S. – Cognitive Development, 1995
Compared the use of conditional logic in adult-adult and adult-child conversation. Results indicated that conversation patterns and inferences were similar except that children made fewer independent inferences and shifts in taxonomic level and responded more frequently to socially controlling statements than did adults. (AA)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adults, Age Differences, Child Development