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Toyama, Noriko – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2011
Four experiments were conducted with Japanese children and adult participants to assess their awareness of the effectiveness of biological and psychological treatments for psychogenic bodily reactions. Study 1 had 116 participants, composed of 4-year-olds (17), 5-year-olds (20), 7-year-olds (24), 10-year-olds (20), and college students (35). The…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Cultural Differences, Psychology, Children
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Klein, Perry D. – Journal of Experimental Education, 1998
The theory that children's development of strategies-of-science experimentation is a consequence of developments in theory of mind was examined with 72 children in grades one, three, and five. Ability to predict, explain, and affect the reasoning of a doll or cartoon character predicted performance in planning controlled experiments and in…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Child Development, Concept Formation, Elementary School Students