Various developmental studies have demonstrated that implied object weight is a key variable in children's interpretations of motion, such as predicting the objects' speeds. An additional bias in predictions of object motion is representational momentum (RM), where objects are anticipated to be found in a location farther along in the direction of…

The current study investigated whether children's conformity to a majority testimony influenced their willingness to revise their own erroneous counting knowledge. The content of the testimonies focused on conventional rules of counting, by means of pseudoerrors (i.e., unconventional counts) occurring during a detection task. In this work…

Reports on research on parental teaching strategies with children aged three and four years. Findings support Dweck and Elliott's view that adults who are process oriented rather than product oriented act more as resources than as judges; focus children on learning rather than outcome; and respond to errors as natural and useful rather than as…