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Little Pitchers Use Their Big Ears: Preschoolers Solve Problems by Listening to Others Ask Questions
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Mills, 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
Emotion Discourse, Social Cognition, and Social Skills in Children with and without Developmental Delays
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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
Comprehension Monitoring in Preschool Children.
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Revelle, Glenda L.; And Others – Child Development, 1985
Examined the ability of 2 1/2- to 4 1/2-year-olds to recognize and implement strategies for resolving comprehension difficulties. In contrast to previous experimental findings, results indicate that young children are capable of detecting a variety of comprehension problems and possess appropriate strategies for resolving these difficulties with a…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Communication Skills, Preschool Children, Preschool Education
Eliciting Verbalization from Young Children in Experimental Tasks: A Methodological Note
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Blank, Marion – Child Development, 1975
Descriptors: Performance Factors, Preschool Children, Problem Solving, Research Methodology
The Adult-Child Dyad as a Problem-solving System.
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Wertsch, James V.; And Others – Child Development, 1980
Investigates the way that mothers and their preschool children divided up strategic responsibilities for carrying out a problem-solving task which involved making a puzzle in accordance with a model. Among the results, findings suggest that adults' communicative moves were fulfilling different functions for children at different ages. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Communication (Thought Transfer), Coordination, Metacognition
Gender Comparisons of Preschoolers' Behavior and Resource Utilization in Group Problem Solving.
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Charlesworth, Wiliam R.; Dzur, Claire – Child Development, 1987
Tested hypothesis that 4- and 5-year-old children in same-sex problem-solving groups would perform equally well when a group task required various cooperative and self-serving behaviors to enable group to obtain a resource. The hypothesis that girls and boys would employ different behaviors to obtain resource was also tested. Participants were 20…
Descriptors: Competition, Cooperation, Emotional Experience, Physical Activity Level
Knowledge Conveyed in Gesture Is Not Tied to the Hands.
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Garber, Philip; Alibali, Martha Wagner; Goldin-Meadow, Susan – Child Development, 1998
Investigated whether fourth-graders' gestures convey knowledge self-recognizable in another context. Identified math problem-solving procedures conveyed gesturally and examined whether the procedures could be accessed by the same child on a task not involving gesture. Children rated higher those solutions derived from procedures they conveyed…
Descriptors: Body Language, Communication (Thought Transfer), Elementary School Students, Grade 4
Contemporaneous and Longitudinal Associations of Sibling Conflict with Family Relationship Assessments and Family Discussions about Sibling Problems.
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Brody, Gene H.; And Others – Child Development, 1992
Examined the relationship between sibling conflict and marital satisfaction, spousal conflict, family emotional climate, and family problem-solving processes that involve siblings. Results indicated that equal treatment by parents, family harmony in family discussions of sibling problems, and parent perceptions of family cohesiveness were…
Descriptors: Children, Conflict Resolution, Family Communication, Family Environment
Effective Family Problem Solving.
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Blechman, 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