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Lisa Annika Brandt; Soern Finn Menning – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2024
Despite numerous critiques of the pioneering works of developmental child psychology, these key ideas continue to resonate within the field of ECEC (early childhood education and care). This article seeks to re-animate the critique through a closer look at two current tendencies within the Nordic countries: a growing and increasingly strict age…
Descriptors: Developmental Psychology, Piagetian Theory, Developmental Stages, Child Psychology
Olson, Kristina R.; Shaw, Alex – Developmental Science, 2011
Adults believe that plagiarizing ideas is wrong, which requires an understanding that others can have ideas and that it is wrong to copy them. In order to test when this understanding emerges, we investigated when children begin to think plagiarism is wrong. In Study 1, children aged 7, 9 and 11 years old, as well as adults, disliked someone who…
Descriptors: Plagiarism, Children, Age Differences, Ethics
Franks, Bridget A. – Early Child Development and Care, 2014
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was first included in the American Psychiatric Association's "Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders" in 1980. Long used to describe the reactions of soldiers affected by stress in combat situations, PTSD is now recognised as a disorder affecting abused and neglected infants and…
Descriptors: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Child Development
Schietecatte, Inge; Roeyers, Herbert; Warreyn, Petra – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2012
From the moment infants are born, they seem to prefer orienting to social stimuli, over objects and non-social stimuli. This preference lasts throughout adulthood and is believed to play a crucial role in social-communicative development. By following up a group of infants at the age of 6, 8, and 12 months, this study explored the role of social…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Infants, Orientation, Attention
Rosati, Alexandra G.; Hare, Brian – Developmental Science, 2012
Spatial cognition and memory are critical cognitive skills underlying foraging behaviors for all primates. While the emergence of these skills has been the focus of much research on human children, little is known about ontogenetic patterns shaping spatial cognition in other species. Comparative developmental studies of nonhuman apes can…
Descriptors: Memory, Spatial Ability, Exhibits, Animals
Hammerer, Dorothea; Eppinger, Ben – Developmental Psychology, 2012
In many instances, children and older adults show similar difficulties in reward-based learning and outcome monitoring. These impairments are most pronounced in situations in which reward is uncertain (e.g., probabilistic reward schedules) and if outcome information is ambiguous (e.g., the relative value of outcomes has to be learned).…
Descriptors: Brain, Rewards, Child Development, Brain Hemisphere Functions
Balas, Benjamin; Moulson, Margaret C. – Developmental Psychology, 2011
Adults preferentially use information from the left side of face images to judge gender, emotion, and identity. In this study, we examined the development of this visual-field bias over middle childhood (5-10 years). Our goal was to both characterize the developmental trajectory of the left-side bias (should one exist) and examine the selectivity…
Descriptors: Infants, Children, Primatology, Perception
Furlan, Sarah; Agnoli, Franca; Reyna, Valerie F. – Developmental Psychology, 2013
Dual-process theories have been proposed to explain normative and heuristic responses to reasoning and decision-making problems. Standard unitary and dual-process theories predict that normative responses should increase with age. However, research has focused recently on exceptions to this standard pattern, including developmental increases in…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Misconceptions, Cognitive Style, Logical Thinking
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
Kleinspehn-Ammerlahn, Anna; Riediger, Michaela; Schmiedek, Florian; von Oertzen, Timo; Li, Shu-Chen; Lindenberger, Ulman – Developmental Psychology, 2011
Many social interactions require the synchronization--be it automatically or intentionally--of one's own behavior with that of others. Using a dyadic drumming paradigm, the authors delineate lifespan differences in interpersonal action synchronization (IAS). Younger children, older children, younger adults, and older adults in same- and mixed-age…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Individual Differences, Interaction, Models
Widen, Sherri C.; Russell, James A. – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2010
Understanding and recognition of emotions relies on emotion concepts, which are narrative structures (scripts) specifying facial expressions, causes, consequences, label, etc. organized in a temporal and causal order. Scripts and their development are revealed by examining which components better tap which concepts at which ages. This study…
Descriptors: Scripts, Stimuli, Nonverbal Communication, Fear
Beck, Sarah R.; Riggs, Kevin J.; Gorniak, Sarah L. – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2010
We investigated German and Nichols' finding that 3-year-olds could answer counterfactual conditional questions about short causal chains of events, but not long. In four experiments (N = 192), we compared 3- and 4-year-olds' performance on short and long causal chain questions, manipulating whether the child could draw on general knowledge to…
Descriptors: Young Children, Questioning Techniques, Age Differences, Knowledge Level
Kristen, Susanne; Sodian, Beate; Thoermer, Claudia; Perst, Hannah – Developmental Psychology, 2011
To assess predictive relations between joint attention skills, intention understanding, and mental state vocabulary, 88 children were tested with measures of comprehension of gaze and referential pointing, as well as the production of declarative gestures and the comprehension and production of imperative gestures, at the ages of 7-18 months.…
Descriptors: Evidence, Imitation, Intention, Toddlers
Casler, Krista; Eshleman, Angelica; Greene, Kimberly; Terziyan, Treysi – Developmental Psychology, 2011
Children sometimes make "scale errors," attempting to interact with tiny object replicas as though they were full size. Here, we demonstrate that instrumental tools provide special insight into the origins of scale errors and, moreover, into the broader nature of children's purpose-guided reasoning and behavior with objects. In Study 1, 1.5- to…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Child Development, Error Patterns, Spatial Ability
Pasupathi, Monisha; Wainryb, Cecilia – Developmental Psychology, 2010
This article examines age differences from childhood through middle adolescence in the extent to which children include factual and interpretive information in constructing autobiographical memory narratives. Factual information is defined as observable or perceptible information available to all individuals who experience a given event, while…
Descriptors: Memory, Children, Adolescents, Autobiographies