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James, Karin H.; Jones, Susan S.; Smith, Linda B.; Swain, Shelley N. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2014
Two important and related developments in children between 18 and 24 months of age are the rapid expansion of object name vocabularies and the emergence of an ability to recognize objects from sparse representations of their geometric shapes. In the same period, children also begin to show a preference for planar views (i.e., views of objects held…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Recognition (Psychology), Vocabulary, Preferences
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Mahajan, Neha; Wynn, Karen – Cognition, 2012
A central feature of human psychology is our pervasive tendency to divide the social world into "us" and "them". We prefer to associate with those who are similar to us over those who are different, preferentially allocate resources to similar others, and hold more positive beliefs about similar others. Here we investigate the developmental…
Descriptors: Infants, Interpersonal Attraction, Values, Cultural Influences
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Chiang, Shyh-Bao; Sun, Chun-Wang – Educational Media International, 2013
This research looked into the effect of how cognitive development toward imagery is formed through visual perception by means of a quantitative questionnaire. The main variable was the difference between the learning backgrounds of the interviewees. A two-way ANOVA mixed design was the statistical method used for the analysis of the 2 × 4 (2 by 4)…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Visual Perception, Visual Literacy, Educational Background