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Forest, Tess Allegra; Abolghasem, Zahra; Finn, Amy S.; Schlichting, Margaret L. – Child Development, 2023
Trajectories of cognitive and neural development suggest that, despite early emergence, the ability to extract environmental patterns changes across childhood. Here, 5- to 9-year-olds and adults (N = 211, 110 females, in a large Canadian city) completed a memory test assessing what they remembered after watching a stream of shape triplets: the…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Memory, Tests
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Atance, Cristina M.; Caza, Julian S. – Developmental Psychology, 2018
An important aspect of perspective-taking ability is the appreciation that mental states such as beliefs, desires, and knowledge change over time. The current study focused specifically on 3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds' understanding that they will have knowledge in the future that they do not currently possess--for example, that when they are…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Evaluative Thinking, Knowledge Level, Change
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Browne, Dillon T.; Leckie, George; Prime, Heather; Perlman, Michal; Jenkins, Jennifer M. – Developmental Psychology, 2016
The present study sought to investigate the family, individual, and dyad-specific contributions to observed cognitive sensitivity during family interactions. Moreover, the influence of cumulative risk on sensitivity at the aforementioned levels of the family was examined. Mothers and 2 children per family were observed interacting in a round robin…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Family (Sociological Unit), Sibling Relationship, Siblings
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Peterson, Carole; Warren, Kelly L.; Hayes, Ashli H. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2013
A problematic issue for forensic interviewers is that young children provide limited information in response to open-ended recall questions. Although quantity of information is greater if children are asked more focused prompts and closed question types such as yes/no or forced choice questions, the quality of their responses is potentially…
Descriptors: Interviews, Young Children, Stress Variables, Injuries
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Liu, David; Wellman, Henry M.; Tardif, Twila; Sabbagh, Mark A. – Developmental Psychology, 2008
Theory of mind is claimed to develop universally among humans across cultures with vastly different folk psychologies. However, in the attempt to test and confirm a claim of universality, individual studies have been limited by small sample sizes, sample specificities, and an overwhelming focus on Anglo-European children. The current meta-analysis…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Asians, North Americans, Cognitive Development
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Perry, Adrienne; Cummings, Anne; Geier, Jennifer Dunn; Freeman, Nancy L.; Hughes, Susan; LaRose, Louise; Managhan, Tom; Reitzel, Jo-Ann; Williams, Janis – Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2008
Although the "efficacy" of Intensive Behavioral Intervention (IBI) for young children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) has been well documented in small model programs, IBI's "effectiveness" (i.e., does it work in the "real world"?) has been less studied and may not be as impressive, e.g. Bibby, Eikeseth, Martin,…
Descriptors: Intervention, Autism, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries
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Qu, Li; Zelazo, Philip David – Cognitive Development, 2007
This study examined the effect of emotional stimuli on 3- to 4-year old children's flexible rule use, as measured by the Dimensional Change Card Sort (DCCS). In Experiment 1, children in two countries (Canada and China) were given 2 versions of the DCCS. The Standard version required children to sort red and blue boats and rabbits first by shape…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Foreign Countries, Cognitive Development, Preschool Children
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Jarvey, Marya; McKeough, Anne; Pyryt, Michael C. – Research in the Teaching of English, 2008
Trickster tales, with their teachings on how to behave in the world, are a powerful means for transmitting social knowledge and cultural mores to children. In this study we compared two approaches to teaching fourth-grade students to write trickster tales. Although both instructional methods incorporated aspects of the writing process approach,…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Tales, Process Approach (Writing), Cognitive Development
Piper, Terry – 1989
A study analyzed and described the writing development of 24 children in a multiethnic inner city classroom in Canada to learn whether there were measurable differences among native speakers, bilinguals, and English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) beginners. Writing samples were analyzed for describing, interpreting, generalizing, and speculating…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language)
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Romany, S.; Adams-Webber, J. – Social Behavior and Personality, 1981
Studied the social judgments of children aged 10-15 in Trinidad and in Canada. Ten-year-olds assigned significantly more persons to the positive poles of dimensions. Mid-adolescents applied positive poles of dimensions to persons approximately 62 percent of the time. Discussed findings in terms of developmental implications. (Author/RC)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Attitudes, Child Development
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Krywaniuk, L. W.; Das, J. P. – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1976
Forty Canadian Indian children in grades three and four were divided into two groups and given a minimum and a maximum remediation program to improve their sequential learning processes. The maximum program resulted in significant improvement in sequential tasks such as auditory and visual memory and reading tests. (JC)
Descriptors: American Indians, Canada Natives, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis
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Corter, Carl; Patel, Sejal; Pelletier, Janette; Bertrand, Jane – Early Education and Development, 2008
Research Findings: Integrated services for young children and families are part of the new policy landscape in early childhood, but there is limited evidence of the effectiveness of these programs and how they develop on the ground. This study examined the use of the Early Development Instrument (EDI) as both a summative program evaluation tool…
Descriptors: Integrated Services, Program Evaluation, Program Improvement, Demonstration Programs
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Wright, Stephen C.; And Others – Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1996
Examined whether Inuit children enter school with reduced intellectual skills and tested the possibility that environmental factors in the educational environment serve to disrupt or slow Inuit children's cognitive development. Findings show no deficiency in intellectual capacity at time of school entry. Factors affecting academic underachievement…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Educational Research
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Laveault, Dany – Canadian Journal of Native Education, 1982
Discriminant analysis is applied to data from previous research dealing with assessing the particularities of cognitive development in young (four to nine years old) Montagnais Indians and French Canadians. The most important future contribution of discriminant analysis to intercultural research will be its ability to conceptualize group…
Descriptors: Canada Natives, Children, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis
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Starets, Moshe – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 1995
Presents the results of a study of Francophone pupils in the French schools of Windsor, Ontario. The article gives examples of nonstandard features pervading students' French vocabulary and syntax and concludes that a hybrid vernacular may be emerging as a result of the Canadian sociolinguistic situation, creating a challenge to the teaching of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Context, Elementary School Students
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