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More Intimate, More Generous? Behaviour Control Can Reduce Children's Self-Relevance Effect in Sharing Behaviour
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Liang, Geying; Fan, Wei; Hu, Zhiyuan; Zhang, Wenjie; Zhong, Yiping – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
Children exhibit a self-relevance effect whereby they share more candies with close friends and acquaintances than with strangers. The present study aimed to reduce the negative consequences of self-relevance effects by enhancing the behavioural control of sharing behaviour. This study initiated two behavioural control levels to investigate…
Descriptors: Self Control, Sharing Behavior, Friendship, Preschool Children
Young Children's Selective Trust Decision between Relative versus Precise Expressions
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Kotaman, Hüseyin; Arslan, Mustafa – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
The purpose of this study is to examine who young children (3-7-year-olds) would depend on for asking information, and whose information they would endorse: the one provided precise expressions which were the mathematical presentation of several measurements or the other by a person who provided relative expressions which were assistant's personal…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Decision Making, Foreign Countries, Preschool Children
Inhibitory Control Training in Preschool Children with Typical Development: An RCT Study
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Ghodrati, Saeed; Askari Nejad, Mohammad Sadegh; Sharifian, Maryam; Nejati, Vahid – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
Inhibitory control plays a crucial role in cognitive functioning. We aimed to investigate the efficacy of a program for attentive rehabilitation of inhibition and selective attention (PARISA), on inhibitory control in preschool children. Thirty preschool children, (10 girls) aged six were randomly assigned to the two control and intervention…
Descriptors: Inhibition, Attention Control, Preschool Children, Comparative Analysis
Does Batman™ Affect EF Because He Is Benevolent or Skilful? The Effect of Different Pretend Roles on Pre-Schoolers' Executive Functions
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Veraksa, Alexander Nikolaevich; Gavrilova, Margarita Nikolaevna; Bukhalenkova, Daria ?lexeevna; Almazova, Olga; Veraksa, Nickolay Evgenievich; Colliver, Yeshe – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
Previous research has indicated that young children's executive functions (EFs) can be bolstered through role-play [e.g. the 'Batman™ effect'; White et al.]. However, what is not clear is whether it is the role-playing of another's perspective, or something about the role played, which is responsible for the Batman™ effect. The current experiment…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Child Development, Comparative Analysis, Role Playing
The Development of 3- to 6-Year-Olds' Symbolic Representation Ability in a Block Construction Activity
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Tian, Mi; Luo, Tianrui – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
Symbolic representation refers to the use of physical or psychological processes to represent an object in a symbolic form. The present study investigated the development of children's symbolic representation using a new measure of children's block constructions. Ninety children (44 girls) in three age groups (3-4, 4-5, and 5-6 years) were…
Descriptors: Child Development, Architecture, Age Groups, Developmental Stages
Fast-Mapping in Persian-Speaking Late-Talking Toddlers
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Asadi, Mozhgan; Zarifian, Talieh; Kazemi, Mehdi Dastjerdi; Ghaedamini Harouni, Gholamreza – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
This mixed two-way experimental, cross-sectional study investigated fast-mapping (FM) of novel nouns and verbs in 63 Persian-speaking toddlers aged 30 months, including 31 late-talking (LT) and 32 typically developing (TD) matched with respect to age and maternal education. Toddlers were classified as LT if they had limited expressive vocabulary…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Indo European Languages, Cognitive Mapping, Nouns