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Fein, Greta G.; Eshleman, Suzann – Developmental Psychology, 1974
Uses the transposition paradigm to compare the influence of the adjectives "same" and "different" on the test choice of 5- and 9-year-old children. (Author/SDH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Dimensional Preference
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Yussen, Steven R.; Paquette, Nina Staupe – Developmental Psychology, 1978
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, College Students, Elementary Secondary Education
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Shatz, Marilyn; Diesendruck, Gil; Martinez-Beck, Ivelisse; Akar, Didar – Developmental Psychology, 2003
Two studies examined whether differences in the lexical explicitness with which languages (English, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish) express false belief and preschoolers' socioeconomic status (SES) influenced children's performance on standard false belief tasks. Found that lexical explicitness influenced responses on the "think" false…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, English, Language Patterns, Performance Factors
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Choe, Soonja – Developmental Psychology, 1991
Longitudinal and cross-sectional studies of young English-, French-, and Korean-speaking children showed that, across the three languages, children go through three similar developmental stages before they acquire the adult system of answering negative questions. Several language-specific phenomena were observed. (BC)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries