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Direct linkNielsen, Mark; Blank, Cornelia – Developmental Psychology, 2011
Unlike other animals, human children will copy all of an adult's goal-directed actions, including ones that are clearly unnecessary for achieving the demonstrated goal. Here we highlight how social affiliation is key to this species-specific behavior. Preschoolers watched 2 adults retrieve a toy from a novel apparatus. One adult included…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Developmental Tasks, Imitation, Task Analysis
Muller, Ulrich; Dick, Anthony Steven; Gela, Katherine; Overton, Willis F.; Zelazo, Philip David – Child Development, 2006
Four experiments examined the development of negative priming (NP) in 3-5-year-old children using as a measure of children's executive function (EF) the dimensional change card sort (DCCS) task. In the NP version of the DCCS, the values of the sorting dimension that is relevant during the preswitch phase are removed during the postswitch phase.…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Classification, Task Analysis, Measures (Individuals)
