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Cicchetti, Dante; Rogosch, Fred A.; Howe, Mark L.; Toth, Sheree L. – Child Development, 2010
This investigation examined basic memory processes, cortisol, and dissociation in maltreated children. School-aged children (age range = 6-13), 143 maltreated and 174 nonmaltreated, were administered the California Verbal Learning Test-Children (D. C. Delis, J. H. Kramer, E. Kaplan, & B. A. Ober, 1994) in a week-long camp setting, daily…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Verbal Learning, Recognition (Psychology), Recall (Psychology)
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Rosengren, Karl S.; Gutierrez, Isabel T.; Anderson, Kathy N.; Schein, Stevie S. – Child Development, 2009
Scale errors refer to behaviors where young children attempt to perform an action on an object that is too small to effectively accommodate the behavior. The goal of this study was to examine the frequency and characteristics of scale errors in everyday life. To do so, the researchers collected parental reports of children's (age range = 13-21…
Descriptors: Young Children, Measures (Individuals), Language Acquisition, Error Patterns
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Ruffman, Ted; Slade, Lance; Carlos Sandino, Juan; Fletcher, Amanda – Child Development, 2005
Eight- to 12-month-olds might make A-not-B errors, knowing the object is in B but searching at A because of ancillary (attention, inhibitory, or motor memory) deficits, or they might genuinely believe the object is in A (conceptual deficit). This study examined how diligently infants searched for a hidden object they never found. An object was…
Descriptors: Infants, Object Permanence, Inhibition, Error Patterns