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Brod, Garvin; Breitwieser, Jasmin; Hasselhorn, Marcus; Bunge, Silvia A. – Developmental Science, 2020
This study investigated whether prompting children to generate predictions about an outcome facilitates activation of prior knowledge and improves belief revision. 51 children aged 9-12 were tested on two experimental tasks in which generating a prediction was compared to closely matched control conditions, as well as on a test of executive…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Preadolescents, Executive Function, Cognitive Ability
Lindsey Engle Richland; Hongyang Zhao – Grantee Submission, 2023
Measurement of the building blocks of everyday thought must capture the range of different ways that humans may train, develop, and use their cognitive resources in real world tasks. Executive Function as a construct has been enthusiastically adopted by cognitive and education sciences due to its theorized role as an underpinning of, and…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Schemata (Cognition), Measurement Techniques, Scores
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Hartanto, Andree; Toh, Wei X.; Yang, Hwajin – Child Development, 2019
Socioeconomic status (SES) and bilingualism have been shown to influence executive functioning during early childhood. Less is known, however, about how the two factors interact within an individual. By analyzing a nationally representative sample of approximately 18,200 children who were tracked from ages 5 to 7 across four waves, both higher SES…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Socioeconomic Status, Executive Function, Self Control
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Simmons, Fiona R.; Soto-Calvo, Elena; Adams, Anne-Marie; Francis, Hannah N.; Patel, Hannah; Giofrè, David – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: The study investigated whether preschool code-related home literacy experiences had direct associations with regular and irregular word reading in the first year of primary school as well as exploring whether there were indirect associations between these experiences and later word reading via children's language skills or…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Family Literacy, Family Environment, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
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Bolden, Jennifer; Gilmore-Kern, Jenna E.; Fillauer, Jonathan P. – Journal of American College Health, 2019
Objective: The present study examined whether executive functions (EFs) and sleep problems operate together to predict four attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptom domains. Methods: A sample of 306 college students completed ratings of sleep quality, EFs, and ADHD symptoms from January to December 2014. Simultaneous multiple…
Descriptors: Sleep, Executive Function, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Self Control
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Gärtner, Kim Angeles; Vetter, Verena Clara; Schäferling, Michaela; Reuner, Gitta; Hertel, Silke – Metacognition and Learning, 2018
Inhibitory control is considered a core component of self-regulation. Tremendous advances in early childhood have been attributed to brain maturation processes as well as environmental influences, such as parental co-regulation. Parental self-efficacy represents a key correlate of parenting behaviors and is associated with child outcomes. However,…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Toddlers, Self Efficacy, Inhibition
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Holochwost, Steven J.; Volpe, Vanessa V.; Iruka, Iheoma U.; Mills-Koonce, W. Roger – Early Child Development and Care, 2020
While the role of early maternal parenting practices in the development of executive functions (EFs) has received considerable attention in the literature, little is known about how specific parenting behaviours may be related to EFs within different racial groups. Therefore, the present study examines the joint impact of specific maternal…
Descriptors: Parent Role, Mothers, Parenting Styles, Parent Child Relationship
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Fitzpatrick, Caroline; Archambault, Isabelle; Barnet, Tracie; Pagani, Linda – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2020
Background: Classroom engagement is key predictor of child academic success. Aim: The objective of the study was to examine how preschool cognitive control and the experience of family adversity predict developmental trajectories of classroom engagement through elementary school. Setting: Children were followed in the context of the Quebec…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Learner Engagement, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries
Lillie Moffett; Frederick J. Morrison – Grantee Submission, 2020
Behavioral self-regulation supports young children's learning and is a strong predictor of later academic achievement. The capacity to manage one's attention and control one's behavior is commonly measured via direct assessments of executive function (EF). However, to understand how EF skills contribute to academic achievement, it is helpful to…
Descriptors: Self Control, Executive Function, Inhibition, Short Term Memory
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Lillie Moffett; Frederick J. Morrison – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2020
Behavioral self-regulation supports young children's learning and is a strong predictor of later academic achievement. The capacity to manage one's attention and control one's behavior is commonly measured via direct assessments of executive function (EF). However, to understand how EF skills contribute to academic achievement, it is helpful to…
Descriptors: Self Control, Executive Function, Inhibition, Short Term Memory
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Lensing, Nele; Elsner, Birgit – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2019
Executive functions (EFs) may help children to regulate their food-intake in an "obesogenic" environment, where energy-dense food is easily available. There is mounting evidence that overweight is associated with diminished hot and cool EFs, and several longitudinal studies found evidence for a predictive effect of hot EFs on children's…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Elementary School Students, Food, Eating Habits
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Destan, Nesrin; Roebers, Claudia M. – Metacognition and Learning, 2015
Children typically hold very optimistic views of their own skills but so far, only a few studies have investigated possible correlates of the ability to predict performance accurately. Therefore, this study examined the role of individual differences in performance estimation accuracy as a global metacognitive index for different monitoring and…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Self Concept, Correlation, Prediction
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Raver, C. Cybele; Blair, Clancy; Willoughby, Michael – Developmental Psychology, 2013
In a predominantly low-income, population-based longitudinal sample of 1,259 children followed from birth, results suggest that chronic exposure to poverty and the strains of financial hardship were each uniquely predictive of young children's performance on measures of executive functioning. Results suggest that temperament-based vulnerability…
Descriptors: Performance Factors, Executive Function, Poverty, Young Children
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Denham, Susanne A.; Bassett, Hideko H.; Zinsser, Katherine; Wyatt, Todd M. – Infant and Child Development, 2014
Starting on positive trajectories at school entry is important for children's later academic success. Using partial least squares, we sought to specify interrelations among all theory-based components of social-emotional learning (SEL), and their ability to predict later classroom adjustment and academic readiness in a modelling context.…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Executive Function, School Readiness
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Taatgen, Niels A. – Journal of Problem Solving, 2011
The minimal control principle (Taatgen, 2007) predicts that people strive for problem-solving strategies that require as few internal control states as possible. In an experiment with the Abstract Decision Making task (ADM task; Joslyn & Hunt, 1998) the reward structure was manipulated to make either a low-control strategy or a high-strategy…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Abstract Reasoning, Decision Making, Learning Strategies
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