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Direct linkZaitchik, Deborah; Iqbal, Yeshim; Carey, Susan – Child Development, 2014
There is substantial variance in the age at which children construct and deploy their first explicit theory of biology. This study tests the hypothesis that this variance is due, at least in part, to individual differences in their executive function (EF) abilities. A group of 79 boys and girls aged 5-7 years (with a mean age of 6½ years) were…
Descriptors: Hypothesis Testing, Executive Function, Abstract Reasoning, Biology
Peer reviewedSmall, Melinda Y.; Butterworth, John – Child Development, 1981
Tests semantic integration and frequency tally models of memory among 60 first-, third-, and fifth-grade children. Data from third and fifth graders show different patterns of results for regular and anomalous stories. The true-inference error rate was significantly greater than the error rates for false premise and false-inference sentences in…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Hypothesis Testing
