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Bohn, Annette – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2011
Autobiographical reasoning is closely related to the development of normative ideas about life as measured by the cultural life script. The acquisition of a life script is an important prerequisite for autobiographical reasoning because children learn through the life script which events are expected to go into their life story, and when to expect…
Descriptors: Personal Narratives, Self Concept, Autobiographies, Reflection
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Klaczynski, Paul A.; Aneja, Alka – Developmental Psychology, 2002
The relationship between higher order reasoning and sex bias was investigated among children 7, 9 and 11 years old. Children read arguments enhancing their own or other gender, then rated argument intelligence, judged other children based on observations, and justified their arguments. Findings showed that own-gender reasoning biases declined with…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Childhood Attitudes, Children, Cognitive Structures
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Samuels, Mark C.; McDonald, John – Child Development, 2002
Two experiments compared 10-year-olds' and adults' ability to choose positive and negative diagnostic tests over positive and negative nondiagnostic tests. Findings indicated that both age groups were more likely to prefer positive diagnostic tests over positive nondiagnostic tests, although only adults showed a significant preference for negative…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Attitudes, Childhood Attitudes
Halford, Graeme S. – 1991
The proposals concerning working memory outlined in this paper involve the architecture of working memory, the reasoning mechanisms that draw on it, and the ways in which working memory may develop with age. Ways of assessing task demands and children's working memory capacities are also considered. It is noted that there is long-standing evidence…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Development
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Prencipe, Angela; Helwig, Charles C. – Child Development, 2002
Investigated development of reasoning about the teaching of values in school and family contexts among 8-, 10-, and 13-year olds and college students. Found that children and young adults' reasoning is multifaceted and distinguishes between moral values that reflect justice, rights, and moral character traits and other forms of desirable…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Development
McCormick, Penelope G.; Olson, David R. – 1991
Three different theory of mind tasks were conducted with 4- to 8-year-old Quechua peasant children in the Peruvian Andes. The study investigated the ways in which children in preliterate cultures think and the possibility that they think differently than children in literate cultures. The tasks included: (1) a false-belief task, which tested the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, American Indians, Beliefs, Cognitive Structures
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Goswami, Usha – Child Development, 1991
Children's analogical reasoning has traditionally been measured by classical four-term analogy tasks or problem-solving tasks. Current theories of analogical development and the evidence on which they are based are reviewed. It is concluded that structural views of analogical development are wrong, and knowledge-based accounts of what develops are…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Age Differences, Analogy, Children
Streitenberger, Denise; McGregor, Joy – 1999
Two naturalistic research studies observed 45 eleventh grade students carrying out research paper assignments, and a third such study focused on 26 third grade students. The studies took place in Alberta (Canada) in 1993, Texas in 1996, and Washington state in 1999. From data analyzed in the interviews and written documents, the initial findings…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Citations (References), Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Thornton, Stephanie – 1995
The developmental increase in the ability to solve problems is a puzzle. Does it come from basic changes in mental skills, or is it a matter of practice? This book from the Developing Child series synthesizes recent research examining children's problem-solving skills development. Chapter 1 presents the major themes: (1) there is increasing…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Analogy, Child Development, Children