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LoBue, Vanessa; Adolph, Karen E. – Developmental Psychology, 2019
This review challenges the traditional interpretation of infants' and young children's responses to three types of potentially "fear-inducing" stimuli--snakes and spiders, heights, and strangers. The traditional account is that these stimuli are the objects of infants' earliest developing fears. We present evidence against the…
Descriptors: Fear, Emotional Response, Infants, Young Children
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Schlottmann, Anne – Developmental Psychology, 1999
Two studies investigated how 5- to 10-year-olds integrate perceptual causality with their knowledge of the underlying causal mechanism, using two devices in which a bell would ring when a ball was dropped in, either immediately or after a delay, depending on the mechanism inside. Findings suggest a link between temporal contiguity and causality in…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Children, Cognitive Development, Perception
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Oakes, Lisa M. – Developmental Psychology, 1994
Two experiments investigated the role of continuity cues in infants' perception of launching events as causal. Results indicated that younger subjects' perceptions of the particular object may influence perception of causality and that infants' use of cues to causality changes with age. (WP)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attribution Theory, Cognitive Development, Infants
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Deary, Ian J. – Developmental Psychology, 1995
Tested three competing structural equation models concerning auditory inspection time (AIT) and cognitive ability. Found that auditory inspection times near age 11 correlate most strongly with later high IQ. (ET)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attribution Theory, Auditory Perception, Causal Models