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Direct linkCourage, Mary L.; Setliff, Alissa E. – Developmental Review, 2010
The recent increase in the availability of infant-directed video material (e.g., "Baby Einstein") and the corresponding increase in the amount of time that infants and toddlers spend viewing them have prompted concern among parents and professionals that these media might impede aspects of cognitive and social development. In contrast, supporters…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Social Development, Child Development, Television Viewing
Best, John R.; Miller, Patricia H.; Jones, Lara L. – Developmental Review, 2009
Research and theorizing on executive function (EF) in childhood has been disproportionately focused on preschool age children. This review paper outlines the importance of examining EF throughout childhood, and even across the lifespan. First, examining EF in older children can address the question of whether EF is a unitary construct. The…
Descriptors: Research Needs, Children, Short Term Memory, Cognitive Development
Peer reviewedLillard, Angeline – Developmental Review, 2001
Presents the Twin Earth model, proposing specific relations between pretend play and understanding minds, from ontogenesis of pretense to later emergence of role play and representational understandings of pretense. Central to the model is supposition that pretend play functions for children much as Twin Earth functions for philosophers, by…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Development, Literature Reviews, Models
Symons, Douglas K. – Developmental Review, 2004
This paper examines the social origins of self-other understanding in young children. The proposition is that mental state discourse is related to the development of social understanding, and evidence for this proposal comes from cross-sectional, longitudinal, and training studies that relate discourse about mental states in a variety of…
Descriptors: Young Children, Social Development, Social Theories, Interpersonal Competence
Boyer, Ty W. – Developmental Review, 2006
The current paper reviews four research perspectives that have been used to investigate the development of risk-taking. Cognitive developmental research has investigated the development of decision-making capacities that potentially underlie risk-taking development, including sensitivity to risk, probability estimation, and perceptions of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Decision Making, Emotional Development, Adolescents
van Geert, Paul; Steenbeek, Henderien – Developmental Review, 2005
The basic properties of a dynamic systems approach of development are illustrated by contrasting two simple equations. One equation is characteristic of dynamic systems models. The other refers to what, for the sake of simplicity, is referred to as the standard developmental approach. We give illustrations from cognitive, language and social…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Mathematical Models, Developmental Psychology, Comparative Analysis
