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Lydia Paulin Schidelko; Hannes Rakoczy – Cognitive Science, 2025
The standard view on Theory of Mind (ToM) is that the mastery of the false belief (FB) task around age 4 marks the ontogenetic emergence of full-fledged meta-representational ToM. Recently, a puzzling finding has emerged: Once children master the FB task, they begin to fail true belief (TB) control tasks. This finding threatens the validity of FB…
Descriptors: Childrens Attitudes, Theory of Mind, Beliefs, Young Children
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Noyes, Alexander; Dunham, Yarrow; Keil, Frank C. – Developmental Psychology, 2023
We systematically compared beliefs about animal (e.g., "lion"), artifactual (e.g., "hammer"), and institutional (e.g., "police officer") categories, aiming to identify whether people draw different inferences about which categories are subjective and which are socially constituted. We conducted two studies with 270…
Descriptors: Animals, Preschool Children, Children, Child Development
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Woolley, Jacqueline D.; Kelley, Kelsey A. – Developmental Psychology, 2020
In Study 1, 103 children ages 4 through 10 answered questions about their concept of and belief in luck, and completed a story task assessing their use of luck as an explanation for events. The interview captured a curvilinear trajectory of children's belief in luck from tentative belief at age 4 to full belief at age 6, weakening belief at age 8,…
Descriptors: Children, Concept Formation, Beliefs, Child Development
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S. Bahar Sener; Ariel Starr – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2025
Although we cannot see or touch time, across many cultures, we use spatial representations to think about this abstract concept. Spatial representations of time are thought to support temporal concepts that might otherwise be difficult to represent and reason about, such as the temporal component of episodic memory. One common form of spatially…
Descriptors: Memory, Cultural Pluralism, Spatial Ability, Time
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Wilson, Kyra; Frank, Michael C.; Fourtassi, Abdellah – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2023
In order for children to understand and reason about the world in an adult-like fashion, they need to learn that conceptual categories are organized in a hierarchical fashion (e.g., a dog is also an animal). While children learn from their first-hand observation of the world, social knowledge transmission via language can also play an important…
Descriptors: Cues, Linguistic Input, Language Acquisition, Speech Communication
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Geist, Eugene; Jung, Jeesun – Childhood Education, 2022
Do young children understand the complex mathematics in the petals of a daisy, the Fibonacci sequence in the spiral of a pinecone, the fractal geometry in the leaves of a fern, or the "golden ratio" in the seed pattern of a sunflower? Probably not, but they certainly can observe and recognize the patterns and compare them to similar…
Descriptors: Gardening, Geometry, Mathematical Concepts, Concept Formation
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Yakuwa, Marina Sayuri; Pancieri, Letícia; Neill, Sarah; de Mello, Débora Falleiros – SAGE Open, 2022
To analyze mothers' understanding of child brain development and their stimulus practices with children in the first months of life. Qualitative research, with 18 Brazilian mothers, over 18 years of age, used semi-structured interviews to identify their perspectives on important healthcare outcomes, based on reflexive thematic analysis. Mother's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mothers, Concept Formation, Brain
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Harris, Paul L. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2023
Given the legacy of John Bowlby, Attachment theory has often portrayed separation from a caregiver as likely to provoke protest, despair, and ultimately detachment in infants and young children. Indeed, the emotional challenge of separation is built into a key measurement tool of Attachment theory, the Strange Situation. However, James Robertson,…
Descriptors: Young Children, Death, Attachment Behavior, Concept Formation
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Cutting, Chelsea; Lowrie, Thomas – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2023
Learning progressions have become increasingly prevalent in mathematics education as they offer a fine-grain map of possible learning pathways a child may take within a particular domain. However, there is an opportunity to build upon this research in ways that consider learning from multiple perspectives. Many current forms of learning…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Child Development, Play, Learning Trajectories
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Bauer, Patricia J. – Child Development Perspectives, 2021
Accumulating information and knowledge is a major task of development. A common assumption is that we build our storehouse of world knowledge, our semantic memory, through direct experience. Although direct experience is involved, to explain fully how we know all that we know, we also must consider processes that allow for integration of…
Descriptors: Children, Young Adults, Child Development, Knowledge Level
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Facon, Bruno; Magis, David; Courbois, Yannick – American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2021
The aim of this study was to examine the developmental trajectories of comprehension of relational concepts among 557 participants with intellectual disability (ID) of undifferentiated etiology (M age = 12.20 years, SD = 3.18) and 557 typically developing (TD) participants (M age = 4.57 years, SD = 0.80). Logistic regression analyses, with…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Preadolescents, Early Adolescents, Comprehension
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Danaci Miray Ö.; Çetin, Zeynep – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2022
Background: To understand how the human brain organises the information, how prototypes are handled in the categorisation system, researchers have pointed out that there may be a relationship between visual perception and concept acquisition. Aim: This study was conducted to examine the effect of a concept education programme, developed on the…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Concept Formation, Preschool Children, Concept Mapping
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Schröder, Elin; Gredebäck, Gustaf; Forssman, Linda; Lindskog, Marcus – Developmental Science, 2022
How do children construct a concept of natural numbers? Past research addressing this question has mainly focused on understanding how children come to acquire the cardinality principle. However, at that point children already understand the first number words and have a rudimentary natural number concept in place. The question therefore remains;…
Descriptors: Child Development, Numbers, Number Concepts, Concept Formation
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Deich, B. A.; Galeeva, N. V. – Russian Education & Society, 2018
The article examines the relationship between the development of the subculture of childhood and the evolution of out-of-school education. It identifies the historical stages of the influence of the subculture of childhood on the nature of extracurricular learning and development. We analyze the concepts of the "subculture of childhood"…
Descriptors: Subcultures, Concept Formation, Children, Child Development
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Ade Dwi Utami; Marilyn Fleer; Liang Li – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2025
Structured and teacher-directed play focused on children's academic outcomes has proven problematic in Indonesian early childhood education. This contrasts with the PlayWorlds model, which emphasises both the primary activity of play and conceptual learning. However, there has been little research in Indonesia on the pedagogical aspects of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Play
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