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Race, Causality, and the Attribution of Theory-Like Understanding: A Reply to Kim.
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Hirschfeld, Lawrence A. – Cognition, 1997
Responds to John J. Kim's critique of his studies of preschoolers' understanding of race. Maintains that his and others' investigations demonstrate that preschoolers differentiate the pattern of causal reasoning governing transmission and maintenance of racial characteristics from that governing transmission and maintenance of perceptually similar…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Causal Models, Childhood Attitudes, Cognitive Development
Developmental and Gender Differences in Preadolescents' Judgments of the Veracity of Gossip.
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Kuttler, Ami Flam; Parker, Jeffrey G.; La Greca, Annette M. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 2002
Used hypothetical vignettes to examine 384 preadolescents' understanding of gossip in varying circumstances. Found that children correctly labeled talk about nonpresent others as gossip and considered it inappropriate. Skepticism was higher for gossip than for firsthand information and was greatest with cues suggesting that speakers were…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Age Differences, Attribution Theory, Cognitive Development
Children's Predictions of Consistency in People's Actions.
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Kalish, Charles W. – Cognition, 2002
Three experiments explored the conditions under which inductive inferences about people were made by children and adults. Results indicated that children often predicted that people would behave differently in the future than they did in the past. Younger children limited predictions of consistency to non-psychological events. Older children…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Attribution Theory, Behavior Patterns
Emergent Understanding and Attribution of Randomness: Comparative Analysis of the Reasoning of Primary Grade Children and Undergraduates.
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Metz, Kathleen E. – Cognition and Instruction, 1998
Compared kindergartners', third graders', and undergraduates' understanding and attribution of randomness. Found that kindergartners' interpretations were deterministic or outside the determinancy-indeterminancy frame. Most third graders had some grasp of randomness; their interpretations were less dominated by false attribution of determinism…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attribution Theory, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis
Sex Differences in Cognition: Exploring Alternative Explanations. Symposium Papers.
Petersen, Anne C.; And Others – 1980
This document contains five symposium papers exploring sex differences in cognition. The first paper defines the purposes of the study, i.e., to examine which cognitive performance factors are related to sex differences, and to investigate possible biological, social, and psychological factors affecting developmental sex differences. The second…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attribution Theory, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development
Development of Children's Inferences of the Emotions of Others.
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Thompson, Ross A. – Developmental Psychology, 1987
Second graders, fifth graders, and college students heard 12 stories that varied systematically by situational domain, outcome, and causal attribution. Students were asked to infer the story character's emotion at the end of the story and give reasons for it. Contributions and limitations of Weiner's attribution-emotion model are assessed in light…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attribution Theory, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development