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Direct linkKushnir, Tamar; Wellman, Henry M.; Gelman, Susan A. – Developmental Psychology, 2009
Preschoolers' causal learning from intentional actions--causal interventions--is subject to a self-agency bias. The authors propose that this bias is evidence-based, in other words, that it is responsive to causal uncertainty. In the current studies, two causes (one child controlled, one experimenter controlled) were associated with one or two…
Descriptors: Inferences, Preschool Children, Attribution Theory, Intervention
Peer reviewedSomerville, Susan C.; Wellman, Henry M. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1979
A complex task designed to elicit a variety of memorization strategies was presented to 236 children aged 10 to 14. (MP)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Elementary School Students, Learning Processes
Peer reviewedWellman, Henry M.; Hickling, Anne K. – Child Development, 1994
Presents the results of three studies examining children's conception of the mind itself as an independent, active entity. Findings revealed a developing ability in children to interpret and produce statements personifying the mind and provided considerable evidence of children's movement toward a conception of the mind as an active agent…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Peer reviewedWellman, Henry M.; Estes, David – Child Development, 1986
Describes three studies that examined how young children distinguish between the real, physical world and the mental world; between objects and thoughts; and between doing something and imagining it. (HOD)
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Download full textFlavell, John H.; Wellman, Henry M. – 1975
This paper explores the concept of metamemory, generally defined as the individual's knowledge of and awareness of memory. The concept of metamemory is compared to three other categories of memory and a model of what the growing child could conceivably acquire in the domain of metamemory is presented. Brief reviews of existing research relations…
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education
