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Direct linkAndrew Shtulman; Brandon Goulding; Ori Friedman – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Young children tend to deny the possibility of events that violate their expectations, including events that are merely improbable, like making onion-flavored ice cream or owning a crocodile as a pet. Could this tendency be countered by teaching children more valid strategies for judging possibility? We explored this question by training children…
Descriptors: Children, Thinking Skills, Evaluative Thinking, Age Differences
Vaunam P. Venkadasalam; Nicole E. Larsen; Patricia A. Ganea – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Evaluating evidence and restructuring beliefs based on anomalous evidence are fundamental aspects of scientific reasoning. These skills can be challenging for both children and adults, especially in domains where they possess inaccurate prior beliefs that can interfere with the acquisition of correct scientific information (e.g., heavier objects…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Concept Formation, Cognitive Development
Santiago Morales; Maureen E. Bowers; Lauren Shuffrey; Katherine Ziegler; Sonya Troller-Renfree; Alexis Hernandez; Stephanie C. Leach; Monica McGrath; Cindy Ola; Leslie D. Leve; Sara S. Nozadi; Margaret M. Swingler; Jin-Shei Lai; Julie B. Schweitzer; William Fifer; Carlos A. Camargo Jr.; Gurjit K. Khurana Hershey; Allison L. B. Shapiro; Daniel P. Keating; Tina V. Hartert; Sean Deoni; Assiamira Ferrara; Amy J. Elliott – Developmental Psychology, 2024
A large body of research has established a relation between maternal education and children's neurocognitive functions, such as executive function and language. However, most studies have focused on early childhood and relatively few studies have examined associations with changes in maternal education over time. Consequently, it remains unclear…
Descriptors: Mothers, Educational Attainment, Child Development, Thinking Skills
Yip, Sai-Kit Eason; Wong, Tin-Yau Terry; Kwan, Kam-Tai – Developmental Psychology, 2023
Understanding of the complement principle has been proposed as closely related to computational skills, but few studies have investigated their interrelations. The present longitudinal study attempted to clarify the picture by examining their potential cross-lagged relation. Fourth graders (n = 221) in Hong Kong received 3 cognitive assessments at…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Grade 4, Elementary School Students
Crimston, Jessica; Redshaw, Jonathan; Suddendorf, Thomas – Developmental Psychology, 2023
Previous research has suggested that infants are able to distinguish between possible and impossible events and make basic probabilistic inferences. However, much of this research has focused on children's intuitions about past events for which the outcome is already determined but unknown. Here, we investigated children's ability to use…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Thinking Skills, Intuition, Discrimination Learning
Booth, Amy E.; Shavlik, Margaret; Haden, Catherine A. – Developmental Psychology, 2022
From an early age, children show a keen interest in discovering the causal structure of the world around them. Given how fundamental causal information is to scientific inquiry and knowledge, this early emerging "causal stance" might be important in propelling the development of scientific literacy. However, currently little is known…
Descriptors: Scientific Literacy, Causal Models, Young Children, Child Development
Fuke, Taissa S. S.; Kamber, Ege; Alunni, Melissa; Mahy, Caitlin E. V. – Developmental Psychology, 2023
Little is known about the development of procrastination, the tendency to postpone undesirable but necessary tasks, during early childhood. Only one study has measured procrastination behavior in preschool children using a single behavioral task (Sutter et al., 2018). Thus, the present study investigated the emergence and development of everyday…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Time Management, Child Behavior, Executive Function
Marion Gardier; Marie Geurten – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Recently, several studies have suggested that metacognition emerges early in infancy and toddlerhood. However, to date, the developmental trajectory of these early metacognitive monitoring and control processes and their influence on children's later memory functioning remains poorly understood. The aim of this study was to longitudinally document…
Descriptors: Child Development, Metacognition, Toddlers, Young Children
Tecwyn, Emma C.; Mazumder, Pingki; Buchsbaum, Daphna – Developmental Psychology, 2023
Knowing the temporal direction of causal relations is critical for producing desired outcomes and explaining events. Existing evidence suggests that children start to grasp that causes must precede their effects (the temporal priority principle) by age 3; however, whether younger children also understand this has, to our knowledge, not previously…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Time Perspective, Influences, Attribution Theory
Burke, Nicole; Rizzo, Michael T.; Britton, Tobias C.; Rhodes, Marjorie – Developmental Psychology, 2023
By 4 years of age, White children from across the United States begin to exhibit an awareness of racial inequalities, along with in-group preferences for other White children. The present study explored how the size and racial diversity of White children's social network (e.g., friends, family, and classmates) and neighborhood (zip code) are…
Descriptors: Diversity, Racial Differences, Whites, Children
Brenda C. Straka; Analia Albuja; Jane Leer; Kaelah Brauher; Sarah E. Gaither – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Children's socioeconomic status (SES) is linked to disparate access to resources and affects social behaviors such as inclusion and resource allocations. Yet it is unclear whether children's essentialized view of SES (i.e., believing SES is immutable) or subjective social status (SSS) influences behavioral biases toward high- versus low-SES peers.…
Descriptors: Social Class, Children, Beliefs, Inclusion
Doan, Tiffany; Friedman, Ori; Denison, Stephanie – Developmental Psychology, 2021
How we feel about an outcome often depends on how close an alternative outcome was to occurring. In four experiments, we investigated whether predominantly White, middle-class, Canadian children (N = 425, Experiments 1-3) and American adults (N = 227, Experiment 4) consider close counterfactual alternatives when inferring other people's emotions.…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Foreign Countries, Emotional Intelligence, Children
Xinyu S. Pan; Chen Li; Tyler W. Watts – Developmental Psychology, 2023
The current article examines associations between preschool cognitive and behavioral skills and indicators of college enrollment in a sample (n = 379) of primarily Black and Hispanic youth growing up in low-income areas of Chicago. Although we found that most early cognitive and behavioral skills were only weakly or moderately related to later…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Thinking Skills, Behavior Patterns, College Enrollment
Burns, Patrick; McCormack, Teresa; O'Connor, Patrick A.; Fitzpatrick, Áine; Atance, Cristina – Developmental Psychology, 2021
We investigated whether the developmental emergence of episodic future thinking (EFT) is associated with performance on a type of delay of gratification task: a delay choice task that involved choosing between a small reward now or a larger reward the next day. In Study 1, 4- to 5-year-olds' (N = 99) EFT as measured by a tool saving task was…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Thinking Skills, Cognitive Processes, Delay of Gratification
Devlin, Brianna L.; Hornburg, Caroline Byrd; McNeil, Nicole M. – Developmental Psychology, 2023
A longitudinal study was conducted to identify unique sources of individual differences in later understanding of the equal sign as a relational symbol of equivalence (i.e., formal understanding of mathematical equivalence). The sample included 141 children from a mid-sized city in the Midwestern United States (M[subscript age] = 6 years, 2 months…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Grade 2, Elementary School Students, Predictor Variables
