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Barnett, Douglas; Ratner, Hilary Horn – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1997
Describes psychological approaches to study of cognition and emotion, identifies issues that may provide direction to understanding the organization and integration of cognition and emotion in development. Maintains that an integrative model for the study of "cogmotion" is needed, suggesting that cogmotion research will contribute to the exchange…
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Cognitive Development, Emotional Development

Enns, James T.; Cameron, Sharon – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1987
Examined relationships between three components of tasks used in developmental studies of attention--visual search, filtering, and priming--as measured in tasks performed by children and adults. (PCB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Child Development, Foreign Countries

Murphy, Kristina; McKone, Elinor; Slee, Judith – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2003
Recounts 3 experiments providing evidence against 2 interpretations of previous research findings that explicit memory develops substantially from 3 years of age to adulthood while implicit memory remains stable. Argues that the implicit-explicit memory developmental dissociation reflects differences in strategic processing (strategy use and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Child Development, Children

Liben, Lynn S. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2000
Presents evidence supporting claim that sex and gender are important to the explanatory as well as the descriptive goals of developmental psychology. Maintains that studying psychosocial and biological components of gender and sex helps one to develop hypotheses about causal mechanisms for developmental outcomes more generally. Introduces the…
Descriptors: Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Gender Issues, Individual Development

Lange-Kuttner, C. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1997
Investigated intra-individual development of ability to modify the size of a human figure drawing. Found through longitudinal data that children between ages 7 and 9 were able to reduce drawing size. Discovered that the larger the figure initially, the more complex the level of spatial axes system, and the more persons in the picture, the greater…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Children, Freehand Drawing

Hosenfeld, Bettina; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1997
Examined evidence for transitions in first and second graders' analogical reasoning, over a six-month period. Found strong evidence for bimodality in test performance frequency distributions and weaker evidence for inaccessibility in frequency distributions. Transitional subjects showed a temporary increase of inconsistent solution behavior and…
Descriptors: Analogy, Child Development, Children, Cognitive Development