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Dual Routes to Cognitive Flexibility: Learning and Response-Conflict Resolution in the Dimensional Change Card Sort Task
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Ramscar, Michael; Dye, Melody; Gustafson, Jessica W.; Klein, Joseph – Child Development, 2013
Cognitive control, the ability to align our actions with goals or context, is largely absent in children under four. How then are preschoolers able to tailor their behavior to best match the situation? Learning may provide an alternative route to context-sensitive responding. This study investigated this hypothesis in the Dimensional Change Card…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Cognitive Processes, Conflict, Cognitive Ability
Non-Humean Indices of Causation in Problem-Solving Situations: Causal Mechanism, Analogous Effects, and the Status of Rival Alternative Accounts.
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Koslowski, Barbara; Okagaki, Lynn – Child Development, 1986
According to Humean framework, relations are judged to be causal to extent that they are characterized by regularity, continuity, and covariation among college students and college-bound 11- and 14-year-olds. Presents subjects with information about one of the following indices: potential causal factor covaried with effect and potential causal…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adolescents, Age Differences, Cognitive Development
Young Children's Remembering in Different Contexts: A Reinterpretation of Istomina's Study.
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Weissberg, Jill A.; Paris, Scott G. – Child Development, 1986
Extends and replicates the 1948 Soviet study by Istomina that examined the age at which children use deliberate strategies to aid recall and the effect that task context has on remembering. Subjects were 3- to 7-year-old children. Istomina's results were not replicated in this study. (HOD)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Stages