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Little Pitchers Use Their Big Ears: Preschoolers Solve Problems by Listening to Others Ask Questions
Direct linkMills, Candice M.; Danovitch, Judith H.; Grant, Meridith G.; Elashi, Fadwa B. – Child Development, 2012
Children ask questions and learn from the responses they receive; however, little is known about how children learn from listening to others ask questions. Five experiments examined preschoolers' ("N" = 179) ability to solve simple problems using information gathered from listening to question-and-answer exchanges between 2 parties present in the…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Listening, Information Seeking, Inquiry
Fenning, Rachel M.; Baker, Bruce L.; Juvonen, Jaana – Child Development, 2011
This study examined parent-child emotion discourse, children's independent social information processing, and social skills outcomes in 146 families of 8-year-olds with and without developmental delays. Children's emergent social-cognitive understanding (internal state understanding, perspective taking, and causal reasoning and problem solving)…
Descriptors: Perspective Taking, Social Cognition, Problem Solving, Developmental Delays
Peer reviewedBlechman, Elaine A.; McEnroe, Michael J. – Child Development, 1985
Effective family problem solving was studied in 97 families of elementary-school-aged children with definite- and indefinite-solution tasks. Incentive and task independence were manipulated. It was found that definitions of effective problem solving based on directly observed measures of group interaction were more valid than definitions based on…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Children, Family Characteristics, Family Relationship
