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Kim, Dan; Opfer, John E. – Developmental Psychology, 2017
Representations of numerical value have been assessed by using bounded (e.g., 0-1,000) and unbounded (e.g., 0-?) number-line tasks, with considerable debate regarding whether 1 or both tasks elicit unique cognitive strategies (e.g., addition or subtraction) and require unique cognitive models. To test this, we examined how well a mixed log-linear…
Descriptors: Computation, Numbers, Children, Cognitive Development
Davies, Patrick T.; Coe, Jesse L.; Hentges, Rochelle F.; Sturge-Apple, Melissa L.; Ripple, Michael T. – Developmental Psychology, 2018
This study examined children's attention biases to negative emotional stimuli as mediators of associations between interparental hostility and children's externalizing symptoms. Participants included 243 children (M[subscript age] = 4.60 years) and their parents and teachers across three annual measurement occasions. Cross-lagged latent change…
Descriptors: Correlation, Psychological Patterns, Prediction, Child Behavior
Hayes, Brett K.; Fritz, Kristina; Heit, Evan – Developmental Psychology, 2013
In 2 studies, the authors examined the development of the relationship between inductive reasoning and visual recognition memory. In both studies, 5- to 6-year-old children and adults were shown instances of a basic-level category (dogs) followed by a test set containing old and new category members that varied in their similarity to study items.…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Age Differences, Developmental Continuity, Generalization
Hills, Thomas T.; Mata, Rui; Wilke, Andreas; Samanez-Larkin, Gregory R. – Developmental Psychology, 2013
Three alternative mechanisms for age-related decline in memory search have been proposed, which result from either reduced processing speed (global slowing hypothesis), overpersistence on categories (cluster-switching hypothesis), or the inability to maintain focus on local cues related to a decline in working memory (cue-maintenance hypothesis).…
Descriptors: Memory, Age Differences, Adults, Cognitive Processes
Atance, Cristina M.; Metcalf, Jennifer L.; Martin-Ordas, Gema; Walker, Cheryl L. – Developmental Psychology, 2014
In a series of 4 experiments, we tested children's understanding that the causes of their actions must necessarily be attributed to information known prior to (i.e., "pre-action" information), rather than after (i.e., "post-action" information), the completion of their actions. For example, children were shown a dog, asked…
Descriptors: Children, Child Development, Attribution Theory, Memory
Mata, Rui; von Helversen, Bettina; Karlsson, Linnea; Cupper, Lutz – Developmental Psychology, 2012
We often need to infer unknown properties of objects from observable ones, just like detectives must infer guilt from observable clues and behavior. But how do inferential processes change with age? We examined young and older adults' reliance on rule-based and similarity-based processes in an inference task that can be considered either a…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comparative Analysis, Classification, Young Adults
Holliday, Robyn E.; Brainerd, Charles J.; Reyna, Valerie F. – Developmental Psychology, 2011
A developmental reversal in false memory is the counterintuitive phenomenon of higher levels of false memory in older children, adolescents, and adults than in younger children. The ability of verbatim memory to suppress this age trend in false memory was evaluated using the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) paradigm. Seven and 11-year-old children…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Memory, Recall (Psychology), Recognition (Psychology)
von Helversen, Bettina; Mata, Rui; Olsson, Henrik – Developmental Psychology, 2010
The authors investigated the ability of 9- to 11-year-olds and of adults to use similarity-based and rule-based processes as a function of task characteristics in a task that can be considered either a categorization task or a multiple-cue judgment task, depending on the nature of the criterion (binary vs. continuous). Both children and adults…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Classification, Cues, Children
Smith, Rebekah E.; Bayen, Ute J.; Martin, Claudia – Developmental Psychology, 2010
Fifty children 7 years of age (29 girls, 21 boys), 53 children 10 years of age (29 girls, 24 boys), and 36 young adults (19 women, 17 men) performed a computerized event-based prospective memory task. All 3 groups differed significantly in prospective memory performance, with adults showing the best performance and with 7-year-olds showing the…
Descriptors: Memory, Children, Young Adults, Age Differences
Pears, Katherine C.; Kim, Hyoun K.; Fisher, Philip A.; Yoerger, Karen – Developmental Psychology, 2013
Children with a history of maltreatment and placement into foster care face elevated risks of poor psychosocial outcomes including school failure, substance use, externalizing, and deviant peer association. For children in the general population, school engagement appears to be a promotive factor in preventing negative outcomes. In this study,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Learner Engagement, Foster Care, Behavior Problems
Tucker-Drob, Elliot M. – Developmental Psychology, 2011
Normative adult age-related decrements are well documented for many diverse forms of effortful cognitive processing. However, it is currently unclear whether each of these decrements reflects a distinct and independent developmental phenomenon, or, in part, a more global phenomenon. A number of studies have recently been published that show…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Age Differences, Adults, Change
Cuevas, Kimberly; Bell, Martha Ann – Developmental Psychology, 2010
From a neuropsychological perspective, the cognitive skills of working memory, inhibition, and attention and the maturation of the frontal lobe are requisites for successful A-not-B performance on both the looking and reaching versions of the task. This study used a longitudinal design to examine the developmental progression of infants'…
Descriptors: Object Permanence, Infants, Short Term Memory, Thinking Skills
Cragg, Lucy; Nation, Kate – Developmental Psychology, 2009
Performance on the task-switching paradigm is greatly affected by the amount of conflict between tasks. Compared to adults, children appear to be particularly influenced by this conflict, and this suggests that the ability to resolve interference between tasks improves with age. The authors used the task-switching paradigm to investigate how this…
Descriptors: Models, Conflict, Children, Conflict Resolution
Tucker-Drob, Elliot M.; Johnson, Kathy E.; Jones, Richard N. – Developmental Psychology, 2009
The term cognitive reserve is frequently used to refer to the ubiquitous finding that, during later life, those higher in experiential resources (e.g., education, knowledge) exhibit higher levels of cognitive function. This observation may be the result of either experiential resources playing protective roles with respect to the cognitive…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Persistence, Vocabulary Development, Cognitive Processes
Williamson, Rebecca A.; Meltzoff, Andrew N.; Markman, Ellen M. – Developmental Psychology, 2008
Children are selective and flexible imitators. They combine their own prior experiences and the perceived causal efficacy of the model to determine whether and what to imitate. In Experiment 1, children were randomly assigned to have either a difficult or an easy experience achieving a goal. They then saw an adult use novel means to achieve the…
Descriptors: Imitation, Young Children, Prior Learning, Success
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