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Direct linkLegare, Cristine H. – Child Development, 2012
Explaining inconsistency may serve as an important mechanism for driving the process of causal learning. But how might this process generate amended beliefs? One way that explaining inconsistency may promote discovery is by guiding exploratory, hypothesis-testing behavior. In order to investigate this, a study with young children ranging in age…
Descriptors: Evidence, Young Children, Testing, Beliefs
Masnick, Amy M.; Morris, Bradley J. – Child Development, 2008
A crucial skill in scientific and everyday reasoning is the ability to interpret data. The present study examined how data features influence data interpretation. In Experiment 1, one hundred and thirty-three 9-year-olds, 12-year-olds, and college students (mean age = 20 years) were shown a series of data sets that varied in the number of…
Descriptors: Data Interpretation, Data Analysis, Children, Preadolescents
Peer reviewedCooper, Leslie M.; London, Perry – Child Development, 1971
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior, Hypnosis, Longitudinal Studies
Peer reviewedLane, Irving M.; Coon, Robert C. – Child Development, 1972
The present investigation, conducted within the framework of equity theory, was designed to determine the principles that preschool children use when they are given the opportunity to distribute rewards. (Authors)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Childhood Attitudes, Preschool Children, Rewards
Peer reviewedGreenberg, David J.; O'Donnell, William J. – Child Development, 1972
Study attempted to determine the viability of optimal level theory as it pertains to infant perceptual and cognitive development. (Authors)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Data Analysis, Infants
Peer reviewedLeCompte, Guney K.; Gratch, Gerald – Child Development, 1972
Development of object identity was studied within the framework of a hiding game that varied the objects themselves instead of their spatial positions. (Authors)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Concept Formation, Developmental Psychology, Infant Behavior
Peer reviewedWilloughby, Robert H. – Child Development, 1973
Primary purpose of the study was to ascertain the effectiveness of different methods of training children to solve the two-choice conditional matching problem. (Author)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Data Analysis, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewedCostanzo, Philip R.; And Others – Child Development, 1973
Findings suggest that age differences in the use of intention in evaluating another are a function of the valence of the other's act; and that social perspectivism increased with age regardless of the kind of consequences involved. (Atuhors/CB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Childhood Attitudes, Data Analysis, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewedAdams, Wayne V. – Child Development, 1972
The interaction between age and conceptual tempo was a consistently significant finding. (Author)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Conceptual Tempo, Data Analysis
Peer reviewedHennings, James S., S. J.; Kornreich, L. Berell – Child Development, 1971
Finding supports the educational theory and practices of Montessori educators. (Authors)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Data Analysis, Developmental Psychology, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewedGutkin, Daniel C. – Child Development, 1972
Descriptors: Age Differences, Elementary School Students, Item Analysis, Moral Values
Peer reviewedHagen, John W.; And Others – Child Development, 1973
Results confirm an earlier finding that experimentally induced rehearsal facilitates recall. (Authors/CS)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Memory, Performance Factors, Primary Education
Peer reviewedHawkins, Robert P. – Child Development, 1973
Study demonstrates that the curvilinear relation between age and peripheral learning from films may not be so general a phenomenon as it appeared from previous research. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Childhood Interests, Content Analysis
Peer reviewedKagan, Jerome; And Others – Child Development, 1973
Although the performance of American 5- and 8-year-olds was superior to the Guatemalans, the 11-year-olds in both cultures performed at an equally high level. (Authors)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences
Peer reviewedSroufe, L. Alan; Wunsch, Jane Piccard – Child Development, 1972
Results are discussed in terms of cognitive growth, the psychoanalytic notion of ambivalence, the role of stimulus context in eliciting laughter or fear, and a possible adaptive, stimulus-maintaining function of laughter. (Authors)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Infants
