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Thoermer, Claudia; Sodian, Beate; Vuori, Maria; Perst, Hannah; Kristen, Susanne – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2012
An implicit understanding of false belief indicated by anticipatory looking has been shown to be significantly correlated with performance on explicit false-belief tasks in 3- and 4-year-old children (Low, 2010). Recent evidence from infant research indicates, however, that implicit false-belief understanding guides infants' expectations about…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Theory of Mind, Infants, Preschool Children
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Liebal, Kristin; Carpenter, Malinda; Tomasello, Michael – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2013
Human social interaction depends on individuals identifying the common ground they have with others, based both on personally shared experiences and on cultural common ground that all members of the group share. We introduced 3- and 5-year-old children to a culturally well-known object and a novel object. An experimenter then entered and asked,…
Descriptors: Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Toddlers, Young Children, Cognitive Development
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Waters, Gillian M.; Beck, Sarah R. – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2012
In two experiments, we investigated whether 4- to 5-year-old children's ability to demonstrate their understanding of aspectuality was influenced by how the test question was phrased. In Experiment 1, 60 children chose whether to look or feel to gain information about a hidden object (identifiable by sight or touch). Test questions referred either…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Spatial Ability, Perception
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Reid, Corinne; Davis, Helen; Horlin, Chiara; Anderson, Mike; Baughman, Natalie; Campbell, Catherine – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2013
Empathy is an essential building block for successful interpersonal relationships. Atypical empathic development is implicated in a range of developmental psychopathologies. However, assessment of empathy in children is constrained by a lack of suitable measurement instruments. This article outlines the development of the Kids' Empathic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Empathy, Measures (Individuals), Affective Behavior
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Surian, Luca; Geraci, Alessandra – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2012
Prior research on implicit mind-reading skills has focussed on how infants anticipate other persons' actions. This study investigated whether 11- and 17-month-olds spontaneously attribute false beliefs (FB) even to a simple animated geometric shape. Infants were shown a triangle chasing a disk through a tunnel. Using an eye-tracker, we found that…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Geometric Concepts, Theory of Mind, Infants
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Piekny, Jeanette; Maehler, Claudia – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2013
According to Klahr's (2000, 2005; Klahr & Dunbar, 1988) Scientific Discovery as Dual Search model, inquiry processes require three cognitive components: hypothesis generation, experimentation, and evidence evaluation. The aim of the present study was to investigate (a) when the ability to evaluate perfect covariation, imperfect covariation,…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Science Process Skills, Inquiry, Child Development
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Hall, James E.; Sammons, Pam; Sylva, Kathy; Melhuish, Edward; Taggart, Brenda; Siraj-Blatchford, Iram; Smees, Rebecca – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2010
In studies of child development, the combined effect of multiple risks acting in unison has been represented in a variety of ways. This investigation builds upon this preceding work and presents a new procedure for capturing the combined effect of multiple risks. A representative sample of 2,899 British children had their cognitive development…
Descriptors: Risk, Cognitive Development, Child Development, Foreign Countries
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Bennett, Mark; Mitchell, Peter; Murray, Pauline – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2009
Previous research has suggested that children of 5/6 years fail to understand that they are the authority on their own self-knowledge. That is, when asked questions like, "Who knows best when you are feeling tired?", they tend to cite their mother rather than themselves. Here we report a study that, rather than asking about generalities ("Who…
Descriptors: Young Children, Mothers, Self Concept, Age Differences
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Paik, Jae H.; Mix, Kelly S. – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2008
Using a sticker search task, Gentner and Rattermann ("Perspectives on thought and language: Interrelations in development" (Gelman & Byrnes, Eds.), pp. 225-227, 1991) found that the ability to ignore surface features and match objects in terms of relative size emerged around 5 years of age. However, because spatial position covaried with relative…
Descriptors: Search Strategies, Cognitive Development, Age Differences, Child Development
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Pillow, Bradford H.; Anderson, Katherine L. – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2006
We conducted three studies that investigated first through third grade children's ability to identify and remember deductive inference or guessing as the source of a belief, to detect and retain the certainty of a belief generated through inference or guessing and to evaluate another observer's inferences and guesses. Immediately following a…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Inferences, Metacognition, Identification
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Simpson, Andrew; Riggs, Kevin J. – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2005
Gerstadt, Hong, and Diamond (1994) investigated the development of inhibitory control in children aged 3 1/2 - 7 years using the day-night task. In two studies we build on Gerstadt et al.'s findings with a measure of inhibitory control that can be used throughout childhood. In Study 1 (twenty-four 3 1/2-year-olds and sixteen 5-year-olds) we…
Descriptors: Inhibition, Short Term Memory, Children, Task Analysis
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Stevens, Catherine; Gallagher, Melinda – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2004
This experiment investigated relational complexity and relational shift in judgments of auditory patterns. Pitch and duration values were used to construct two-note perceptually similar sequences (unary relations) and four-note relationally similar sequences (binary relations). It was hypothesized that 5-, 8- and 11-year-old children would perform…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Auditory Perception
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Monks, Claire P.; Smith, Peter K. – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2006
We report two studies that examine age differences in pupils' and parents' definitions of the term "bullying," and possible reasons for these including the role of specific experiences. Study 1 compared definitions of "bullying" given by participants in four age groups; 4 to 6 years, 8 years, 14 years and adult. Participants were shown/read 17…
Descriptors: Bullying, Definitions, Cartoons, Preschool Children
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Bering, Jesse M.; Blasi, Carlos Hernandez; Bjorklund, David F. – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2005
Children aged from 4;10 to 12;9 attending either a Catholic school or a public, secular school in an eastern Spanish city observed a puppet show in which a mouse was eaten by an alligator. Children were then asked questions about the dead mouse's biological and psychological functioning. The pattern of results generally replicated that obtained…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Puppetry, Catholics, Cognitive Ability
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Ruffman, Ted; Slade, Lance; Devitt, Kerry; Crowe, Elena – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2006
We used a longitudinal study with 55 middle- and upper middle-class children to investigate the relation between early mother characteristics (e.g. mental state talk, general parenting style) and later child characteristics (e.g. theory of mind, conflict/cooperation). Children were tested once when they were around 3 years and then again around 4…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Mothers, Conflict, Parenting Styles