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Personal Narrative as a "Breeding Ground" for Higher-Order Thinking Talk in Early Parent-Child Interactions
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Frausel, Rebecca R.; Richland, Lindsey E.; Levine, Susan C.; Goldin-Meadow, Susan – Developmental Psychology, 2021
Personal narrative is decontextualized talk where individuals recount stories of personal experience about past or future events. As an everyday discursive speech type, narrative potentially invites parents and children to explicitly link together, generalize from, and make inferences about representations--that is, to engage in higher-order…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Thinking Skills, Family Environment, Personal Narratives
Personal Narrative as a 'Breeding Ground' for Higher-Order Thinking Talk in Early Parent-Child Interactions
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Frausel, Rebecca R.; Richland, Lindsey E.; Levine, Susan C.; Goldin-Meadow, Susan – Grantee Submission, 2021
Personal narrative is decontextualized talk where individuals recount stories of personal experiences about past or future events. As an everyday discursive speech type, narrative potentially invites parents and children to explicitly link together, generalize from, and make inferences about representations--i.e., to engage in higher-order…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Thinking Skills, Family Environment, Personal Narratives
What Do Infants Know about Continuous Quantity?
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Gao, Fan; Levine, Susan C.; Huttenlocher, Janellen – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2000
Two experiments investigated infants' sensitivity to amount of continuous quantity and to changes in amount of continuous quantity. Found that 6-month-olds looked significantly longer at a novel quantity than at the familiar quantity. Nine-month-olds looked significantly longer at an impossible event than at a possible event. Findings question…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Computation, Discrimination Learning