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Direct linkFleer, Marilyn – Oxford Review of Education, 2022
Government guidelines are demanding greater educational outcomes and intentional teaching in Australian preschools. The purpose of this paper is to present the results of a study of how children incorporate concepts into child-initiated play. A cohort of 18 children (aged 3.0-5.8, mean age of 4.8) were digitally observed over seven weeks…
Descriptors: Educational Experiments, Role Playing, Play, Preschool Children
Golinkoff, Roberta M.; Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy; Grob, Rachel; Schlesinger, Mark – Child Development, 2017
Urie Bronfenbrenner and Ernest Boyer argued for leaving the laboratory to conduct rigorous developmental research in the real world where children are found--in the places they go. Contributions to this special issue meet Bronfenbrenner and Boyer's call while at the same time recognizing the continued importance of laboratory research. These…
Descriptors: Child Development, Foreign Countries, Laboratory Experiments, Intervention
Download full textPolat, Ozgul; Yavuz, Ezgi Aksin; Tunc, Ayse Betul Ozkarabak – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2017
The aim of this study is to examine the effect of mind mapping activities on the maths and science skills of children 48 to 60 months of age. The study was designed using an experimental model with a pre-test post-test and a control group. Accordingly, the hypotheses of the study was that there would be meaningful differences in the values…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Mathematics Skills, Science Process Skills, Experiments
Houssa, Marine; Jacobs, Emilie; Nader-Grosbois, Nathalie – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2017
In two experimental and exploratory studies, we wanted to test the differentiated effects on preschoolers with externalizing behavior (EB) of two short-term social information processing (SIP) and Theory of Mind (ToM) training sessions, in comparison with typically developing (TD) preschoolers or with preschoolers with EB whom didn't receive…
Descriptors: Training, Outcomes of Education, Preschool Children, Social Cognition
Furlan, Sarah; Agnoli, Franca; Reyna, Valerie F. – Developmental Psychology, 2013
Dual-process theories have been proposed to explain normative and heuristic responses to reasoning and decision-making problems. Standard unitary and dual-process theories predict that normative responses should increase with age. However, research has focused recently on exceptions to this standard pattern, including developmental increases in…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Misconceptions, Cognitive Style, Logical Thinking
Piekny, Jeanette; Maehler, Claudia – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2013
According to Klahr's (2000, 2005; Klahr & Dunbar, 1988) Scientific Discovery as Dual Search model, inquiry processes require three cognitive components: hypothesis generation, experimentation, and evidence evaluation. The aim of the present study was to investigate (a) when the ability to evaluate perfect covariation, imperfect covariation,…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Science Process Skills, Inquiry, Child Development
Toyama, Noriko – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2011
Four experiments were conducted with Japanese children and adult participants to assess their awareness of the effectiveness of biological and psychological treatments for psychogenic bodily reactions. Study 1 had 116 participants, composed of 4-year-olds (17), 5-year-olds (20), 7-year-olds (24), 10-year-olds (20), and college students (35). The…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Cultural Differences, Psychology, Children
Hommers, Wilfried; Lee, Wha-Yong – Psicologica: International Journal of Methodology and Experimental Psychology, 2010
In order to unify two major theories of moral judgment, a novel task is employed which combines elements of Kohlberg's stage theory and of the theory of information integration. In contrast to the format of Kohlberg's moral judgment interview, a nonverbal and quantitative response which makes low demands on verbal facility was used. Moral…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Moral Values, Value Judgment
Moore, Chris; Mealiea, Jennifer; Garon, Nancy; Povinelli, Daniel J. – Infancy, 2007
Two experiments examined toddlers' performance on a new task designed to examine the development of body self-awareness. The new task was conceived from observations by Piaget (1953/1977) and theoretical work from Povinelli and Cant (1995) and involved a toy shopping cart to the back of which a small mat had been attached. Children were asked to…
Descriptors: Body Weight, Toddlers, Age Differences, Human Body
Swingley, Daniel – Developmental Science, 2005
During the first year of life, infants' perception of speech becomes tuned to the phonology of the native language, as revealed in laboratory discrimination and categorization tasks using syllable stimuli. However, the implications of these results for the development of the early vocabulary remain controversial, with some results suggesting that…
Descriptors: Phonology, Infants, Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development
Swingley, Daniel – Language and Speech, 2003
Although infants show remarkable sensitivity to linguistically relevant phonetic variation in speech, young children sometimes appear not to make use of this sensitivity. Here, children' s knowledge of the sound-forms of familiar words was assessed using a visual fixation task. Dutch 19-month-olds were shown pairs of pictures and heard correct…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Word Recognition, Indo European Languages, Language Acquisition
Bosch, Laura; Sebastian-Galles, Nuria – Language and Speech, 2003
Behavioral studies have shown that while young infants can discriminate many different phonetic contrasts, a shift from a language-general to a language-specific pattern of discrimination is found during the second semester of life, beginning earlier for vowels than for consonants. This age-related decline in sensitivity to perceive non-native…
Descriptors: Vowels, Infants, Monolingualism, Bilingualism
