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Understanding Stability and Change in Civic Engagement across Adolescence: A Typology Approach
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Wray-Lake, Laura; Shubert, Jennifer – Developmental Psychology, 2019
Developmental theory posits that youth are civically engaged in different ways, patterns of civic development vary across individuals, and both stability and change in youth civic engagement can be influenced by experiences in context. Drawing on these notions, we used a longitudinal person-oriented approach to document stability and change in…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Citizen Participation, Change, Classification
The Development of Categorization: Effects of Classification and Inference Training on Category Representation
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Deng, Wei; Sloutsky, Vladimir M. – Developmental Psychology, 2015
Does category representation change in the course of development? And if so, how and why? The current study attempted to answer these questions by examining category learning and category representation. In Experiment 1, 4-year-olds, 6-year-olds, and adults were trained with either a classification task or an inference task and their…
Descriptors: Classification, Young Children, Adults, Age Differences
Generalizing Norms and Preferences within Social Categories and Individuals
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Kalish, Charles W. – Developmental Psychology, 2012
Under what conditions will people generalize and remember observed social information? Preschool- (n = 44) and young school-age (n = 46) children and adults (n = 40) heard short vignettes describing characters' actions and motives on a single occasion. Characters were introduced using either proper names or category labels. Test questions asked…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Children, Adults, Preferences
Development in the Food Domain.
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Rozin, Paul – Developmental Psychology, 1990
Discusses problems of general interest in developmental psychology that can be successfully studied in the domain of food; these include (1) development of food likes and dislikes; (2) establishment of the edible/inedible distinction; (3) disgust and contagion; (4) transgenerational communication of preferences; and (5) transition to food…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Classification, Concept Formation, Food
Development of Categorization Skills: Changes in the Nature or Structure of Infant Form Categories?
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Younger, Barbara; Gotlieb, Sharon – Developmental Psychology, 1988
Examined developmental change in category representation in the first year of life. Experiment 1 tested infants of three, five, and seven months in a visual recognition memory procedure. Results indicated change in the nature but not the structure of infant form categories. Experiment 2 ruled out a priori preferences as the basis for findings of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, Cognitive Ability, Individual Development
Development of Object Categories and Inclusion Relations: Preschoolers' Hypotheses about Word Meanings.
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Callanan, Maureen A. – Developmental Psychology, 1989
Two studies tested three- and five-year-old children's ability to use multiple-referent and inclusion strategies to interpret new words. In both studies, children interpreted labels for single objects at the basic level. The multiple-referent and inclusion strategies led children to interpret novel words at the superordinate level. (RH)
Descriptors: Classification, Individual Development, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Parent Influence