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Weststrate, Nic M.; Glück, Judith – Developmental Psychology, 2017
Laypersons and experts believe that wisdom is cultivated through a diverse range of positive and negative life experiences. Yet, not all individuals with life experience are wise. We propose that one possible determinant of growth in wisdom from life experience is self-reflection. In a life span sample of adults (N = 94) ranging from 26 to 92…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Knowledge Level, Cognitive Processes, Metacognition
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Kovack-Lesh, Kristine A.; McMurray, Bob; Oakes, Lisa M. – Developmental Psychology, 2014
We assessed the eye-movements of 4-month-old infants (N = 38) as they visually inspected pairs of images of cats or dogs. In general, infants who had previous experience with pets exhibited more sophisticated inspection than did infants without pet experience, both directing more visual attention to the informative head regions of the animals,…
Descriptors: Animals, Infants, Eye Movements, Visual Stimuli
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Tardif, Twila; Wellman, Henry M.; Fung, Kitty Yau Fong; Liu, David; Fang, Fuxi – Developmental Psychology, 2005
Two experiments on preschoolers' understanding of the effects of exposure on knowing-that and knowing-how were conducted with 3-, 4-, and 5-year-old children (N=388) in 2 locations: a small midwestern city in the United States and a suburban area of Hong Kong, China. By using both English- and Chinese-speaking samples, the authors examined…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Experience, Prior Learning