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Mahajan, Neha; Wynn, Karen – Cognition, 2012
A central feature of human psychology is our pervasive tendency to divide the social world into "us" and "them". We prefer to associate with those who are similar to us over those who are different, preferentially allocate resources to similar others, and hold more positive beliefs about similar others. Here we investigate the developmental…
Descriptors: Infants, Interpersonal Attraction, Values, Cultural Influences
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Lecce, Serena; Hughes, Claire – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2010
Cross-cultural research on theory of mind is relatively recent and largely restricted to comparisons of children from Western versus non-Western samples; much less is known about variation within Western cultures. This study compared 5- to 6-year-olds from Britain and Italy (matched for age, verbal age, gender, and maternal education; N=140), on…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries, Cultural Influences, Cognitive Development
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Fuller, Bruce; Bein, Edward; Kim, Yoonjeon; Rabe-Hesketh, Sophia – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 2015
Recent studies reveal early and wide gaps in cognitive and oral language skills--whether gauged in English or Spanish--among Latino children relative to White peers. Yet, other work reports robust child health and social development, even among children of Mexican American immigrants raised in poor households, the so-called "immigrant…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Toddlers, Cognitive Development, Social Class
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Gerry, David W.; Faux, Ashley L.; Trainor, Laurel J. – Developmental Science, 2010
Phillips-Silver and Trainor (2005) demonstrated a link between movement and the metrical interpretation of rhythm patterns in 7-month-old infants. Infants bounced on every second beat of a rhythmic pattern with no auditory accents later preferred to listen to an accented version of the pattern with accents every second beat (duple or march meter),…
Descriptors: Music, Infants, Measurement Equipment, Movement Education
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Coley, John D. – Child Development, 2000
Examines research in folkbiology (commonsense understandings of plants and animals) to argue that several lines of comparative research are needed to understand the acquisition of folkbiology in particular and conceptual development in general. Asserts that comparisons are needed between children and adults within a given society, between adult…
Descriptors: Adults, Biology, Children, Cognitive Development
Nelissen, Jo M. C.; Tomic, Welko – 1996
This paper discusses the cultural-historical school founded by Vygotsky, Luria, and Leontiev as the theoretical background of Russian educational psychologists who have been studying how children learn to reflect. Two approaches to reflection are examined within the cultural-historical tradition: first, reflection--like other higher psychological…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education
Tudge, Jonathan – 1986
A study was made to examine effects of peer collaboration on children's cognitive development and to ascertain whether effects of collaboration varied across American and Russian cultures. A total of 84 girls and boys (42 from a kindergarten in Moscow and 42 from an elementary school in Ithaca, New York), 5 through 7 years of age, initially…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Conservation (Concept), Cooperation
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Zheng, Mingyu; Goldin-Meadow, Susan – Cognition, 2002
Compared gestures of Chinese and American deaf children who had not been exposed to a usable conventional language model with speech of hearing children learning Mandarin or English. Found that deaf children conveyed central elements of motion events in their communications. Deaf American and Chinese children used gestures to express motion in…
Descriptors: Body Language, Children, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis
Zhou, Zheng; Boehm, Ann E. – 1999
This study compared the performance of 300 Chinese children on the Boehm Test of Basic Concepts-Revised (BTBC-R) with that of American children from the standardization sample of the BTBC-R. Subjects were in kindergarten, first, and second grade, and completed the test at the end of the 1996-97 school year. The focus of the comparison was to…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Chinese, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis
Forbes, Norma – 1972
In recent years there has been increasing interest in the effects of bilingualism on cognitive growth and on the bilingual's attitude toward himself and his 2 language communities. One of the most widely quoted studies on bilingualism is that of Peal and Lambert (1962) who dealt with the relation between intelligence, attitude, and achievement in…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis
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Tardif, Twila; Wellman, Henry M.; Cheung, Kar Man – Journal of Child Language, 2004
The present study investigates the performance of 96 Cantonese-speaking three- to five-year-old preschoolers on three false belief tasks--a deceptive object, a change of location, and an unexpected contents task encompassing a variety of task factors. Most importantly, the research examines the possibility that false belief performance depends on…
Descriptors: Sino Tibetan Languages, Child Language, Preschool Children, Verbs
Bosowski, Elaine F. – 1982
Two studies examining student images of the world as depicted on sketch maps are compared. The first study collected sketch maps of the world drawn by high school and university students in the United States, Canada, Finland, and Sierra Leone to examine the influence of location on student perceptions. The second study collected maps drawn by…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Influences
Dopke, S.; And Others – 1991
This paper considers psycholinguistic aspects of bilingualism from two perspectives: the psychology of the individual and social psychology. The linguistic development of children is described and research is presented that compares bilingual and monolingual children with respect to cognitive development. The emotional consequences of parents'…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Children, Cognitive Development
Schultz, Charles B.; And Others – 1977
Recall lists were presented to 40 black lower class and 40 white middle class children in this experiment. The purpose of the study was to examine a possible explanation of the relatively poor performance of black and lower class children on tasks requiring abstract learning abilities. It was reasoned that the threshold for the production of…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Black Students, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Stiles, Deborah A. – Online Submission, 2005
In most ways the island nations of Iceland and Singapore could not be more different from each other: Iceland is sparsely populated, located near the Arctic Circle, and a very free and individualistic democratic society; Singapore is densely populated, located near the equator, and a very regulated and collectivist meritocracy. But both nations…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Values, Democracy, Cognitive Development
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