Models provide specificity: Testing a proposed mechanism of visual working memory capacity development [0.03%]
模型提供了具体性：测试视觉工作记忆容量发展的假设机制
Vanessa R Simmering,A Rebecca Patterson
Vanessa R Simmering
Numerous studies have established that visual working memory has a limited capacity, and that capacity increases during childhood. However, debate continues over the source of capacity limits and its developmental increase. Simmering (2008)...
Simone P Nguyen,Susan A Gelman
Simone P Nguyen
Four studies examined the role of generic language in facilitating 4- and 5-year-old children's ability to cross-classify. Participants were asked to classify an item into a familiar (taxonomic or script) category, then cross-classify it in...
Observers' proficiency at identifying pretense acts based on behavioral cues [0.03%]
观察者根据行为线索识别假装行为的熟练程度
Rebekah A Richert,Angeline S Lillard
Rebekah A Richert
Discriminating what is pretense from what is real is a fundamental problem in development. Research has addressed the proficiency with which adults and children discriminate between play fighting and real fighting, and yet none (to our know...
Pointing Disrupts Preschoolers' Ability to Discriminate Between Knowledgeable and Ignorant Informants [0.03%]
指点破坏了学龄前儿童辨别知识提供者和无知提供者的认知能力
Carolyn M Palmquist,Heather E Burns,Vikram K Jaswal
Carolyn M Palmquist
By 4 years of age, children have been reinforced repeatedly for searching where they see someone point. In two studies, we asked whether this history of reinforcement could interfere with young children's ability to discriminate between a k...
Saime Tek,Gul Jaffery,Lauren Swensen et al.
Saime Tek et al.
Previous research has demonstrated that visual properties of objects can affect shape-based categorization in a novel-name extension task; however, we still do not know how a relationship between visual properties of objects affects judgmen...
Own and Others' Prior Experiences Influence Children's Imitation of Causal Acts [0.03%]
自身及他人先前经验影响儿童模仿因果行为
Rebecca A Williamson,Andrew N Meltzoff
Rebecca A Williamson
Young children learn from others' examples, and they do so selectively. We examine whether the efficacy of prior experiences influences children's imitation. Thirty-six-month-olds had initial experience on a causal learning task either by p...
J Kiley Hamlin,Karen Wynn
J Kiley Hamlin
The current study replicates and extends the finding (Hamlin, Wynn & Bloom, 2007) that infants prefer individuals who act prosocially toward unrelated third parties over those who act antisocially. Using different stimuli from those used by...
Talking about Internal States in Mother-Child Reminiscing Influences Children's Self-Representations: A Cross-Cultural Study [0.03%]
母亲与孩子在分享回忆时讨论内在状态会影响孩子的自我表征-一项跨文化研究
Qi Wang,Stacey N Doan,Qingfang Song
Qi Wang
This study examined the relation of mother-child discussions of internal states during reminiscing to the development of trait and evaluative self-representations in 131 European American and Chinese immigrant 3-year-olds. Mothers and child...
When is peer rejection justifiable?: Children's understanding across two cultures [0.03%]
同伴排斥在什么情况下是正当的？两种文化背景下儿童的理解
Yoonjung Park,Melanie Killen
Yoonjung Park
This study investigated how Korean (N = 397) and U.S. (N = 333) children and adolescents (10 and 13 years of age) evaluated personality (aggression, shyness) and group (gender, nationality) characteristics as a basis for peer rejection in t...
The Role of Maternal Verbal, Affective, and Behavioral Support in Preschool Children's Independent and Collaborative Autobiographical Memory Reports [0.03%]
母辈的语言、情感及行为支持对学龄前儿童独立及合作自传体记忆叙述的作用
Marina Larkina,Patricia J Bauer
Marina Larkina
The authors investigated the individual and relative contributions of different aspects of maternal support (i.e., verbal, affective, and behavioral) in relation to children's collaborative and independent reminiscing. Four-year-old childre...