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Frankenhuis, Willem E.; Panchanathan, Karthik; Clark Barrett, H. – Developmental Science, 2013
Interactions between evolutionary psychologists and developmental systems theorists have been largely antagonistic. This is unfortunate because potential synergies between the two approaches remain unexplored. This article presents a method that may help to bridge the divide, and that has proven fruitful in biology: dynamic optimization. Dynamic…
Descriptors: Evolution, Psychology, Systems Approach, Developmental Psychology
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Birch, Susan A. J.; Akmal, Nazanin; Frampton, Kristen L. – Developmental Science, 2010
Data from three experiments provide the first evidence that children, at least as young as age two, are vigilant of others' non-verbal cues to credibility, and flexibly use these cues to facilitate learning. Experiment 1 revealed that 2- and 3-year-olds prefer to learn about objects from someone who appears, through non-verbal cues, to be…
Descriptors: Cues, Credibility, Nonverbal Communication, Toddlers
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Troseth, Georgene L.; Pickard, Megan E. Bloom; Deloache, Judy S. – Developmental Science, 2007
Using a symbolic object such as a model as a source of information about something else requires some appreciation of the relation between the symbol and what it represents. Representational insight has been proposed as essential to success in a symbolic retrieval task in which children must use information from a hiding event in a scale model to…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Models, Knowledge Representation, Schematic Studies