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Coping with Logical Fallacies: A Developmental Training Program for Learning to Reason
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Christoforides, Michael; Spanoudis, George; Demetriou, Andreas – Child Development, 2016
This study trained children to master logical fallacies and examined how learning is related to processing efficiency and fluid intelligence (gf). A total of one hundred and eighty 8- and 11-year-old children living in Cyprus were allocated to a control, a limited (LI), and a full instruction (FI) group. The LI group learned the notion of logical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Logical Thinking, Cognitive Processes, Intelligence
Contagious Yawning in Autistic and Typical Development
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Helt, Molly S.; Eigsti, Inge-Marie; Snyder, Peter J.; Fein, Deborah A. – Child Development, 2010
The authors tested susceptibility to contagious yawning in 120 children, 1-6 years, to identify the time course of its emergence during development. Results indicated a substantial increase in the frequency of contagious yawning at 4 years. In a second study, the authors examined contagious yawning in 28 children with autism spectrum disorders…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Age, Autism, Child Development
Political Violence and Child Adjustment: Longitudinal Tests of Sectarian Antisocial Behavior, Family Conflict, and Insecurity as Explanatory Pathways
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Cummings, Edward M.; Merrilees, Christine E.; Schermerhorn, Alice C.; Goeke-Morey, Marcie C.; Shirlow, Peter; Cairns, Ed – Child Development, 2012
Understanding the impact of political violence on child maladjustment is a matter of international concern. Recent research has advanced a social ecological explanation for relations between political violence and child adjustment. However, conclusions are qualified by the lack of longitudinal tests. Toward examining pathways longitudinally,…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Security (Psychology), Working Class, Antisocial Behavior
Frontal Electroencephalogram Asymmetry, Salivary Cortisol, and Internalizing Behavior Problems in Young Adults Who Were Born at Extremely Low Birth Weight
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Schmidt, Louis A.; Miskovic, Vladimir; Boyle, Michael; Saigal, Saroj – Child Development, 2010
The authors examined internalizing behavior problems at middle childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood and brain-based measures of stress vulnerability in 154 right-handed, nonimpaired young adults (M age = 23 years): 71 (30 males, 41 females) born at extremely low birth weight (ELBW; less than 1,000 g) and 83 (35 males, 48 females) controls…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Body Weight, Females, Children
The Development of Emotion Recognition in Individuals with Autism
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Rump, Keiran M.; Giovannelli, Joyce L.; Minshew, Nancy J.; Strauss, Mark S. – Child Development, 2009
Emotion recognition was investigated in typically developing individuals and individuals with autism. Experiment 1 tested children (5-7 years, n = 37) with brief video displays of facial expressions that varied in subtlety. Children with autism performed worse than the control children. In Experiment 2, 3 age groups (8-12 years, n = 49; 13-17…
Descriptors: Autism, Cognitive Processes, Emotional Response, Recognition (Psychology)
Longitudinal Trajectories of Self-System Processes and Depressive Symptoms among Maltreated and Nonmaltreated Children
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Kim, Jungmeen; Cicchetti, Dante – Child Development, 2006
This study used latent growth modeling to investigate longitudinal relationships between self-system processes and depressive symptoms among maltreated (n=142) and nonmaltreated children (n=109) aged 6--11 years. On average, self-esteem and self-agency increased and depressive symptoms decreased over time. Multivariate growth modeling indicated…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Children, Control Groups, Self Esteem
Depressive Symptoms in Young Adults: The Influences of the Early Home Environment and Early Educational Child Care
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Mclaughlin, Andrea E.; Campbell, Frances A.; Pungello, Elizabeth P.; Skinner, Martie – Child Development, 2007
The relationship between depressive symptoms in young adults, the quality of the early home environment, and early educational child care was investigated in young adults randomly assigned to receive early childhood intervention in the Abecedarian study. Of the original 111 infants enrolled (98 percent African American), 104 participated in an…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Young Adults, Control Groups, Children