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The Cognitive Costs and Advantages of Children's Exposure to Parental Relationship Instability: Testing an Evolutionary-Developmental Hypothesis
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Davies, Patrick T.; Thompson, Morgan J.; Li, Zhi; Sturge-Apple, Melissa L. – Developmental Psychology, 2022
Guided by evolutionary-developmental models, this study tested the hypothesis that children's exposure to parental relationship instability, defined by initiation and dissolution of caregiver intimate relationships, has both costs in cognitive impairments and benefits in enhanced learning skills. Participants included 243 mothers and their…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Child Development, Marital Instability, Models
A Connectionist Account of Asymmetric Category Learning in Early Infancy.
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Mareschal, Denis; French, Robert M.; Quinn, Paul C. – Developmental Psychology, 2000
Describes connectionist model showing exclusivity asymmetries when categorizing visual stimuli, similar to pattern shown by infants. Examines asymmetries in terms of an associative learning mechanism, distributed internal representations, and statistics of feature distributions in the stimuli. Details test of model with infants, finding that…
Descriptors: Classification, Concept Formation, Infant Behavior, Infants
Age and Observational Learning of a Multiple-Classification Task
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McLaughlin, Lynn J.; Brinley, Joseph F. – Developmental Psychology, 1973
Second-, fourth-, and sixth-grade children were tested on a multiple-classification task to investigate the relationship between age and observational learning. (Editor)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Analysis of Variance, Classification, Learning Processes