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Cognitive Development: Past, Present, and Future.
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Flavell, John H. – Developmental Psychology, 1992
Summarizes researchers' beliefs about cognitive development. Topics include (1) the child as constructive thinker; (2) new research methods; (3) the characterization of children's cognitive development; (4) estimates of children's competence; (5) stages of development; (6) interrelations among developmental skills; (7) mechanisms of development;…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Developmental Psychology, Developmental Stages
The Uses of Longitudinal Data and Person-Centered Analyses in the Study of Cognitive and Language Development
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Hoff, Erika – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2006
Researchers in the fields of cognitive and language development have made less use of large-scale longitudinal designs and of person-centered approaches to data analysis than have researchers in the fields of social and personality development. It is argued that differences among domains of developmental psychology in the research methods employed…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Personality, Data Analysis, Developmental Psychology
Is the French Connection Neo-Piagetian? Not Nearly Enough!
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Pascual-Leone, Juan – Child Development, 2000
Discusses some general-causal assumptions of current neo-Piagetian research and compares them with those of French European developmentalists with regard to individual differences, developmental stages, and methodology. Discusses the developmental unfolding of mental attentional mechanisms. Highlights developmental theory problems for the…
Descriptors: Attention, Children, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis
African American Child-Women: Nutrition Theory Revisited
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Talpade, Medha – Adolescence (San Diego): an international quarterly devoted to the physiological, psychological, psychiatric, sociological, and educational aspects of the second decade of human life, 2006
Past research indicates a significantly higher prevalence of early sexual maturation in African American (AA) girls, which is associated with a number of psychological and behavioral problems as well as with health problems such as childhood obesity and diabetes. Both nutrition and body image perceptions have never before been empirically…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Females, Puberty, Obesity
Passing the Individual Differences Test: A Cram Course for Developmental Psychologists.
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Jackson, Nancy Ewald – 1979
The primary goal of this review is to acquaint developmental psychologists who have had little experience in the study of individual differences in cognition with some of the basic rules that govern this type of research. A second goal is to stimulate researchers to consider the potential benefits of studying differences among individuals whose…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement, Developmental Psychology
Toward a Social Psychology of Childhood: From "Patterns of Child Rearing" to "1984."
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Hartup, Willard W. – 1976
Using "Patterns of Childrearing," by Sears, Maccoby and Levin (1957) as a starting point, this paper touches on the schism between developmental and social psychology and attempts to assess the progress of research in social development during the past quarter century with respect to five major perspectives that are at once evolutionary,…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Rearing, Children, Cross Cultural Studies