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Dual Processes in the Psychology of Mathematics Education and Cognitive Psychology
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Gillard, Ellen; Van Dooren, Wim; Schaeken, Walter; Verschaffel, Lieven – Human Development, 2009
Research in the psychology of mathematics education has been confronted with the fact that people blatantly fail to solve tasks they are supposed to be able to solve correctly given their available domain-specific knowledge and skills. Also researchers in cognitive psychology have encountered such phenomena. In this paper, theories that have been…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Cognitive Psychology, Problem Solving, Epistemology
Regulating Debilitating Emotions in the Context of Performance: Achievement Goal Orientations, Achievement-Elicited Emotions, and Socialization Contexts
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Tyson, Diana F.; Linnenbrink-Garcia, Lisa; Hill, Nancy E. – Human Development, 2009
A theoretical framework that incorporates emotional responses and emotion regulation into achievement goal theory is proposed as an alternative view to understanding the inconsistent pattern of findings linking achievement goal orientations to academic outcomes. In this critical review and synthesis, the relation of achievement goal orientations…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Performance, Goal Orientation, Emotional Problems
Reflections on J.V. Wertsch's "From Social Interaction to Higher Psychological Processes," "Human Development," 1979
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Saxe, Geoffrey B. – Human Development, 2008
In his 1979 "Human Development" article reprinted in this anniversary issue, James Wertsch presented an approach to genetic analysis of the shifting regulation of problem-solving behavior in early childhood. In my reflections on Wertsch's seminal contribution, I discuss ways that subsequent inquiry built upon ideas he elaborated in the…
Descriptors: Social History, Investigations, Interpersonal Relationship, Genetics
Giyoo Hatano's Analysis of Psychological Tools
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Cole, Michael – Human Development, 2007
This paper focuses on the relation between two areas of research which owe a great debt to the work of Giyoo Hatano: the ways in which the use of the abacus mediates arithmetic problem solving and the way in which the use of the kanji writing system mediates the interpretation of unfamiliar words. These examples are related to L. S. Vygotsky's…
Descriptors: Written Language, Problem Solving, Cognitive Psychology, Mathematics
Identifying the Neural Correlates Underlying Social Pain: Implications for Developmental Processes
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Eisenberger, Naomi I. – Human Development, 2006
Although the need for social connection is critical for early social development as well as for psychological well-being throughout the lifespan, relatively little is known about the neural processes involved in maintaining social connections. The following review summarizes what is known regarding the neural correlates underlying feeling of…
Descriptors: Social Development, Neuropsychology, Correlation, Identification
A Critical Analysis of IQ Studies of Adopted Children
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Richardson, Ken; Norgate, Sarah H. – Human Development, 2006
The pattern of parent-child correlations in adoption studies has long been interpreted to suggest substantial additive genetic variance underlying variance in IQ. The studies have frequently been criticized on methodological grounds, but those criticisms have not reflected recent perspectives in genetics and developmental theory. Here we apply…
Descriptors: Criticism, Intelligence Quotient, Genetics, Adoption