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The Executive Demands of Strategic Reasoning are Modified by the Way in which Children are Prompted to Think About the Task: Evidence from 3- to 4-Year-Olds
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Carroll, Daniel J.; Apperly, Ian A.; Riggs, Kevin J. – Cognitive Development, 2007
We investigated a test of strategic reasoning (the Windows task) that in different studies has yielded contrasting pictures of young children's executive abilities [Russell, J., Mauthner, N., Sharpe, S., & Tidswell, T. (1991). "The 'windows task' as a measure of strategic deception in preschoolers and autistic subjects." "British Journal of…
Descriptors: Memory, Developmental Psychology, Preschool Children, Inferences
Learning Set-Ups
McClanahan, Susan – Day Care and Early Education, 1974
A series of easy activities for parents or caregivers to use in guiding the developmental progress of children at the infant, toddler, and preschool levels. (Author)
Descriptors: Developmental Tasks, Infants, Language Acquisition, Learning Activities
Task Demands and Knowledge Influence How Children Learn to Read Words
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Ross, Shannon; Treiman, Rebecca; Bick, Suzanne – Cognitive Development, 2004
To examine how young children learn to read new words, we asked preschoolers (N = 115, mean age 4 years, 8 months) to learn and remember novel spellings that made sense based on letter names (e.g. TZ for "tease") and spellings that were visually distinctive but phonetically inappropriate. Children who were more knowledgeable about letter names…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Spelling, Phonetics, Difficulty Level