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Howe, Christine; Tavares, Joana Taylor; Devine, Amy – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2012
Adults make erroneous predictions about object fall despite recognizing when observed displays are correct or incorrect. Prediction requires explicit engagement with conceptual knowledge, whereas recognition can be achieved through tacit processing. Therefore, it has been suggested that the greater challenge imposed by explicit engagement leads to…
Descriptors: Models, Prediction, Scientific Concepts, Program Effectiveness
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Sloutsky, Vladimir M.; Fisher, Anna V. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2012
Linguistic labels affect inductive generalization; however, the mechanism underlying these effects remains unclear. According to one similarity-based model, SINC (similarity, induction, naming, and categorization), early in development labels are features of objects contributing to the overall similarity of compared entities, with early induction…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Infants, Logical Thinking, Adults
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Miller, Stephanie E.; Marcovitch, Stuart – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2011
Although labeling improves executive function (EF) performance in children older than 3 years, the results from studies with younger children have been equivocal. In the current study, we assessed performance in a computerized multistep multilocation search task with older 2-year-olds. The correct search location was either (a) not marked by a…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Children, Task Analysis, Error Patterns
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Tsubota, Yoko; Chen, Zhe – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2012
Three experiments were designed to examine how experience affects young children's spatio-symbolic skills over short time scales. Spatio-symbolic reasoning refers to the ability to interpret and use spatial relations, such as those encountered on a map, to solve symbolic tasks. We designed three tasks in which the featural and spatial…
Descriptors: Cues, Systems Approach, Young Children, Spatial Ability
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Willoughby, Michael T.; Wirth, R. J.; Blair, Clancy B. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2011
This study demonstrates the merits of evaluating a newly developed battery of executive function tasks, designed for use in early childhood, from the perspective of item response theory (IRT). The battery was included in the 48-month assessment of the Family Life Project, a prospective longitudinal study of 1292 children oversampled from…
Descriptors: Family Life, Young Children, Item Response Theory, Evaluation Methods
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Defever, Emmy; Sasanguie, Delphine; Gebuis, Titia; Reynvoet, Bert – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2011
How people process and represent magnitude has often been studied using number comparison tasks. From the results of these tasks, a comparison distance effect (CDE) is generated, showing that it is easier to discriminate two numbers that are numerically further apart (e.g., 2 and 8) compared with numerically closer numbers (e.g., 6 and 8).…
Descriptors: Models, Mathematics Tests, Kindergarten, Grade 6
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Hopper, Lydia M.; Flynn, Emma G.; Wood, Lara A. N.; Whiten, Andrew – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2010
In the first of two experiments, we demonstrate the spread of a novel form of tool use across 20 "cultural generations" of child-to-child transmission. An experimentally seeded technique spread with 100% fidelity along twice as many "generations" as has been investigated in recent exploratory "diffusion" experiments of this type. This contrasted…
Descriptors: Socialization, Population Distribution, Imitation, Observational Learning
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Portrat, Sophie; Camos, Valerie; Barrouillet, Pierre – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2009
Within the time-based resource-sharing (TBRS) model, we tested a new conception of the relationships between processing and storage in which the core mechanisms of working memory (WM) are time constrained. However, our previous studies were restricted to adults. The current study aimed at demonstrating that these mechanisms are present and…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Time Management, Children, Spatial Ability
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Riggs, Kevin J.; McTaggart, James; Simpson, Andrew; Freeman, Richard P. J. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2006
Using the Luck and Vogel change detection paradigm, we sought to investigate the capacity of visual working memory in 5-, 7-, and 10-year-olds. We found that performance on the task improved significantly with age and also obtained evidence that the capacity of visual working memory approximately doubles between 5 and 10 years of age, where it…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Short Term Memory, Children, Models
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Case, Robbie – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1972
Results of the experiment provide support for the neo-Piagetian model. (Author)
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Elementary School Students