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The Complexity of Developmental Predictions from Dual Process Models
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Stanovich, Keith E.; West, Richard F.; Toplak, Maggie E. – Developmental Review, 2011
Drawing developmental predictions from dual-process theories is more complex than is commonly realized. Overly simplified predictions drawn from such models may lead to premature rejection of the dual process approach as one of many tools for understanding cognitive development. Misleading predictions can be avoided by paying attention to several…
Descriptors: Prediction, Cognitive Development, Theories, Task Analysis
What Children's Memories Tell Us about Recalling Our Childhoods: A Review of Storage and Retrieval Processes in the Development of Long-Term Retention.
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Howe, Mark L; O'Sullivan, Julia T. – Developmental Review, 1997
Reviews literature on development of children's and adults' long-term retention. Finds that forgetting is dominated by storage (not retrieval) failures; trace recovery is dominated by retrieval (not storage) operations; and storage failure rates decline with age in childhood, whereas only modest developments occur in retrieval recovery operations.…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Processes
From Seeing to Thinking: Reply to Mandler.
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Madole, Kelly L.; Oakes, Lisa M. – Developmental Review, 1999
Responds to Mandler's critique of authors' view of infant categorization. Maintains that their view of infant categorization is not characterized by a shift from one type of category to another but by gradual changes in the kinds of information infants can use in forming categories. Clarifies position regarding a single categorical process using…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
The Development of Efficient Inhibition: Evidence from Directed-Forgetting Tasks.
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Wilson, Steffen Pope; Kipp, Katherine – Developmental Review, 1998
Reviews and reinterprets current developmental directed-forgetting literature within an inhibition framework. Argues that item-by-item cued directed-forgetting tasks manipulate selective rehearsal to produce greater recall of to-be-remembered than to-be-forgotten items, producing directed-forgetting effects by second grade. Blocked and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Children, Cognitive Processes
Making Sense of Infant Categorization: Stable Processes and Changing Representations.
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Madole, Kelly L.; Oakes, Lisa M. – Developmental Review, 1999
Demonstrates the need for a process-oriented, constructivist approach to understanding infants' categorization abilities. Suggests that emphasizing the distinction between perceptual and conceptual categorization has been an obstacle to forging an approach. Proposes a more microanalytic consideration of features available to infants at different…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Reconceptualizing the Transitive Inference Ability: A Framework for Existing and Future Research.
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Wright, Barlow C. – Developmental Review, 2001
Suggests an account of transitivity and transitive inferential reasoning differing from classic Piagetian and current information processing accounts. Postulates a three-component psychological system, with components relying on perceptual, linguistic, and conceptual subprocesses and sensitivity to simple cues. Maintains that the framework is…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Children, Cognitive Development