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Ganea, Patricia A.; Harris, Paul L. – Child Development, 2010
This research examined the ability of young (N = 96) children to learn about a change in the location of a hidden object, either via an adult's verbal testimony or from direct observation. Thirty-month-olds searched with equal accuracy whether they were told about the change or directly observed it. By contrast, when 23-month-olds were told about…
Descriptors: Object Permanence, Interference (Language), Cognitive Development, Deafness
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Huttenlocher, Janellen; Vasilyeva, Marina; Newcombe, Nora; Duffy, Sean – Cognition, 2008
The present research examines the ability of children as young as 4 years to use models in tasks that require scaling of distance along a single dimension. In Experiment 1, we found that tasks involving models are similar in difficulty to those involving maps that we studied earlier (Huttenlocher, J., Newcombe, N., & Vasilyeva, M. (1999). Spatial…
Descriptors: Object Permanence, Play, Scaling, Models
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Mounoud, Pierre; Duscherer, Katia; Moy, Guenael; Perraudin, Sandrine – Developmental Science, 2007
Two experiments explored the existence and the development of relations between action representations and object representations. A priming paradigm was used in which participants viewed an action pantomime followed by the picture of a tool, the tool being either associated or unassociated with the preceding action. Overall, we observed that the…
Descriptors: Object Permanence, Pantomime, Infants, Young Adults
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Adrien, Jean Louis; And Others – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1995
This study compared the regulation of cognitive activity in 30 children (ages 15 to 95 months) with autism or mental retardation matched for global, verbal, and nonverbal developmental ages. Testing on tasks of object permanence indicated that the autistic children had a pervasive difficulty in maintenance set, made more perseverative errors, and…
Descriptors: Autism, Children, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation
Barringer, M. D.; Kosal-Smither, C. – 1982
A resource and activity guide for the developmentally disabled that focuses on methods to teach students skills essential to learning is presented. It is noted that once students begin to acquire these critical skills, they can become active participants in group learning activities, rather than waiting for their turn in individual sessions. They…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Cognitive Development, Developmental Disabilities