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Wells, Melissa; Morrongiello, Barbara A.; Kane, Alexa – Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2012
Objective: Research on children's risk of injury reveals that parent and child factors are often interrelated. This study examined relations between children's risk taking, parent appraisal of this risk taking, and children's rate of injury in youth 8 and 9 years old. Methods: Responses to questionnaires and laboratory tasks were used to examine…
Descriptors: Mothers, Injuries, Parent Child Relationship, Risk
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Miller, Stephanie E.; Marcovitch, Stuart – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2011
Although labeling improves executive function (EF) performance in children older than 3 years, the results from studies with younger children have been equivocal. In the current study, we assessed performance in a computerized multistep multilocation search task with older 2-year-olds. The correct search location was either (a) not marked by a…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Children, Task Analysis, Error Patterns
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Lee, Michael D.; Sarnecka, Barbara W. – Cognition, 2011
Lee and Sarnecka (2010) developed a Bayesian model of young children's behavior on the Give-N test of number knowledge. This paper presents two new extensions of the model, and applies the model to new data. In the first extension, the model is used to evaluate competing theories about the conceptual knowledge underlying children's behavior. One,…
Descriptors: Young Children, Models, Theories, Children
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Malti, Tina; Gasser, Luciano; Gutzwiller-Helfenfinger, Eveline – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2010
The study investigated interpretive understanding, moral judgments, and emotion attributions in relation to social behaviour in a sample of 59 5-year-old, 123 7-year-old, and 130 9-year-old children. Interpretive understanding was assessed by two tasks measuring children's understanding of ambiguous situations. Moral judgments and emotion…
Descriptors: Social Cognition, Foreign Countries, Task Analysis, Age Differences
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Rogers, Laura; Hemmeter, Mary Louise; Wolery, Mark – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2010
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of using a constant time delay procedure to teach foundational swimming skills to three children with autism. The skills included flutter kick, front-crawl arm strokes, and head turns to the side. A multiple-probe design across behaviors and replicated across participants was used.…
Descriptors: Aquatic Sports, Autism, Children, Disabilities
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Andreano, Joseph M.; Cahill, Larry – Learning & Memory, 2009
In essentially every domain of neuroscience, the generally implicit assumption that few, if any, meaningful differences exist between male and female brain function is being challenged. Here we address how this development is influencing studies of the neurobiology of learning and memory. While it has been commonly held that males show an…
Descriptors: Memory, Brain, Spatial Ability, Gender Differences
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Goldstein, Brian; Fabiano, Leah; Iglesias, Aquiles – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2004
Purpose: Research examining the relationship between spontaneous and imitated productions for phonological analysis has indicated that the inclusion of imitated productions may overestimate children's phonological abilities. Previous research in this area has included only English-speaking children. The purpose of this study was to determine what,…
Descriptors: Spanish Speaking, Speech Impairments, Children, Imitation