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Touching up Mental Rotation: Effects of Manual Experience on 6-Month-Old Infants' Mental Object Rotation
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Möhring, Wenke; Frick, Andrea – Child Development, 2013
In this study, 6-month-olds' ability to mentally rotate objects was investigated using the violation-of-expectation paradigm. Forty infants watched an asymmetric object being moved straight down behind an occluder. When the occluder was lowered, it revealed the original object (possible) or its mirror image (impossible) in one of five…
Descriptors: Infants, Expectation, Discovery Learning, Experiments
The Roles of Prior Experience and the Timing of Misinformation Presentation on Young Children's Event Memories
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Roberts, Kim P.; Powell, Martine B. – Child Development, 2007
The current study addressed how the timing of interviews affected children's memories of unique and repeated events. Five- to six-year-olds (N = 125) participated in activities 1 or 4 times and were misinformed either 3 or 21 days after the only or last event. Although single-experience children were subsequently less accurate in the 21- versus…
Descriptors: Recall (Psychology), Young Children, Interviews, Time
The Importance of Sensory Context in Young Children's Acceptance of Salty Tastes.
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Cowart, Beverly J.; Beauchamp, Gary K. – Child Development, 1986
Assesses the acceptance of and expressed preference for varying levels of salt in soup among children three to six years of age. (HOD)
Descriptors: Discovery Learning, Experiential Learning, Learning Processes, Sensory Experience
Multiple Functions of Proximity Seeking in Infancy.
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Hay, Dale F. – Child Development, 1980
Identifies and reviews the evidence for some potential functions of proximity seeking in infancy. Data pertaining to a variety of species are reviewed. (Author/SS)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Experiential Learning, Infants, Proximity
Very Young Children's Acquisition of Systematic Problem-solving Strategies.
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Richards, D. Dean; Siegler, Robert S. – Child Development, 1981
Identified some experiences that lead to preschool children's transition from less to more systematic problem-solving strategies. Receiving encouragement to adopt more analytic attitudes and encountering problems with perceptually salient differences on a relevant dimension were the two types of experiences examined. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Convergent Thinking, Critical Thinking, Experiential Learning
Birth Order Effects on Early Language Development: Do Secondborn Children Learn from Overheard Speech?
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Oshima-Takane, Yuriko; And Others – Child Development, 1996
Compared language development of 16 firstborn and 16 secondborn children at 21 months to investigate whether secondborn children benefit from overheard conversations between caregivers and older siblings. Found that secondborn children were more advanced that firstborn in pronoun production, while not differing general language development,…
Descriptors: Birth Order, Caregiver Speech, Comparative Analysis, Experiential Learning
Learning From Falling
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Joh, Amy, S.; Adolph, Karen, E. – Child Development, 2006
Walkers fall frequently, especially during infancy. Children (15, 21, 27, 33, and 39 month-olds) and adults were tested in a novel foam pit paradigm to examine age-related changes in the relationship between falling and prospective control of locomotion. In trial 1, participants walked and fell into a deformable foam pit marked with distinct…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Experiential Learning, Accident Prevention, Motor Development