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French, Jason A.; Menendez, David; Herrmann, Patricia A.; Evans, E. Margaret; Rosengren, Karl S. – Grantee Submission, 2018
We investigated children's (n = 120; 3- to 11-year-olds) and adults' (n = 18) reasoning about life-cycle changes in biological organisms by examining their endorsements of four different patterns of life- span changes. Participants were presented with two separate tasks: (a) judging possible adult versions of a juvenile animal and (b) judging…
Descriptors: Children, Adults, Logical Thinking, Biology
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Cox, Jessica G.; Lynch, Julianna M.; Mendes, Najee; Zhai, ChengCheng – Language Learning, 2019
An enduring question is whether language learning aptitude is a stable trait or is one influenced by experience, such as living with two languages. We investigated aptitude in bilinguals and treated their bilingual experience as an aggregate of variables, focusing on how individual differences in (a) language experience variables of proficiency,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Individual Differences, Language Proficiency, Age Differences
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Bronson, Gordon W. – Child Development, 1991
Eye movements of 12-week-old infants were recorded in a visual encoding experiment. Results showed that infants who encoded more slowly scanned less extensively over the stimulus and engaged in prolonged fixation. An experiment with two-week olds showed significant age differences in the manner of visual scanning. (BC)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Encoding (Psychology), Eye Fixations, Eye Movements