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Under What Conditions Do Children Have Difficulty in Inhibiting Imitation? Evidence for the Importance of Planning Specific Responses
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Simpson, Andrew; Riggs, Kevin J. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2011
The response set effect has been observed in a number of developmental tasks that are proposed to required inhibition. This effect has been interpreted as evidence that the specific responses children plan to make in these tasks become prepotent. Here we investigated whether there is a response set effect in the hand game. In this task, children…
Descriptors: Evidence, Child Development, Emotional Response, Imitation
The Role of Negative Priming in Preschoolers' Flexible Rule Use on the Dimensional Change Card Sort Task
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Muller, Ulrich; Dick, Anthony Steven; Gela, Katherine; Overton, Willis F.; Zelazo, Philip David – Child Development, 2006
Four experiments examined the development of negative priming (NP) in 3-5-year-old children using as a measure of children's executive function (EF) the dimensional change card sort (DCCS) task. In the NP version of the DCCS, the values of the sorting dimension that is relevant during the preswitch phase are removed during the postswitch phase.…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Classification, Task Analysis, Measures (Individuals)
The Developmental Tasks of Youth--An Important Factor in Program Development for Industrial Arts
Maley, Donald – Man/Society/Technology, 1975
Descriptors: Child Development, Developmental Tasks, Elementary Education, Guidelines