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Köymen, Bahar; Mammen, Maria; Tomasello, Michael – Developmental Psychology, 2016
In the context of joint decision-making, we investigated whether preschoolers alter the informativeness of their justifications depending on the common ground that they share with their partner. Pairs of 3- and 5-year-olds (N = 146) were introduced to a novel animal with unique characteristics (e.g., eating rocks). In the common ground condition,…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Thinking Skills, Learning Processes, Social Cognition
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Dollar, Jessica M.; Stifter, Cynthia A.; Buss, Kristin A. – Developmental Psychology, 2017
The current study aimed to substantiate and extend our understanding regarding the existence and developmental pathways of 3 distinct temperament profiles--exuberant, inhibited, and average approach--in a sample of 3.5-year-old children (n = 121). The interactions between temperamental styles and specific types of effortful control, inhibitory…
Descriptors: Child Development, Young Children, Interaction, Personality Traits
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DeLay, Dawn; Hanish, Laura D.; Martin, Carol Lynn; Fabes, Richard A. – Developmental Psychology, 2016
The goals of this study were to investigate whether young children attending Head Start (N = 292; M[subscript age] = 4.3 years) selected peers based on their preschool competency and whether children's levels of preschool competency were influenced by their peers' levels of preschool competency. Children's peer interaction partners were…
Descriptors: Peer Influence, Early Intervention, Disadvantaged Youth, Young Children
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Daniel, João R.; Santos, António J.; Peceguina, Inês; Vaughn, Brian E. – Developmental Psychology, 2015
The goal of this study was to determine whether peer social competence (SC), defined as the capacity to use behavioral, cognitive, and emotional resources in the service of achieving personal goals within preschool peer groups, was related to the type of affiliative subgroups to which children belonged. Two hundred forty Portuguese preschool…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Competence, Peer Relationship, Goal Orientation
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Schneider, Michael; Hardy, Ilonca – Developmental Psychology, 2013
Conceptual change requires learners to restructure parts of their conceptual knowledge base. Prior research has identified the fragmentation and the integration of knowledge as 2 important component processes of knowledge restructuring but remains unclear as to their relative importance and the time of their occurrence during development. Previous…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Knowledge Level, Grade 3, Elementary School Students
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Zucker, Tricia A.; Cabell, Sonia Q.; Justice, Laura M.; Pentimonti, Jill M.; Kaderavek, Joan N. – Developmental Psychology, 2013
In this study, we examined the longitudinal relations between frequency and features of reading experiences within the preschool classroom to children's language and literacy outcomes in kindergarten and 1st grade. "Frequency" refers to the number of shared reading sessions conducted each week as measured by teachers' written reading…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, At Risk Students, Beginning Reading, Reading Aloud to Others
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Shell, Madelynn D.; Gazelle, Heidi; Faldowski, Richard A. – Developmental Psychology, 2014
Consistent with a Diathesis × Stress model, it was hypothesized that anxious solitude (individual vulnerability) and the middle school transition (environmental stress) would jointly predict peer exclusion and victimization trajectories. Youth (N = 688) were followed from 3rd through 7th grade, with the middle school transition in 6th grade.…
Descriptors: Hypothesis Testing, Anxiety, Stress Variables, Elementary School Students