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Baer, Carolyn; Odic, Darko – Child Development, 2022
Strategic collaboration according to the law of comparative advantage involves dividing tasks based on the relative capabilities of group members. Three experiments (N = 405, primarily White and Asian, 45% female, collected 2016-2019 in Canada) examined how this strategy develops in children when dividing cognitive labor. Children divided…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Group Dynamics, Foreign Countries
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Mendelson, Morton J.; Ferland, Mark B. – Child Development, 1982
Twenty-seven 4-month-old infants heard a repetitive auditory rhythm, then viewed silent film of puppet opening/closing its mouth, either in the familiar rhythm or a novel rhythm. Results showed infants exposed to the novel condition watched the film longer than infants shown the familiar condition, providing evidence for auditory-visual transfer…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Cognitive Processes, Discrimination Learning, Foreign Countries
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McCabe, Ann E.; And Others – Child Development, 1982
The performance of children ages three through eight years on a series of class-inclusion problems was examined in two studies. Three patterns of performance were observed: three- and four-year-olds responded in an approximately haphazard pattern, five- and six-year-olds tended to be consistently wrong, and seven- and eight-year-olds showed a…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Foreign Countries