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Sensitivity to Spacing Changes in Faces and Nonface Objects in Preschool-Aged Children and Adults
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Cassia, Viola Macchi; Turati, Chiara; Schwarzer, Gudrun – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2011
Sensitivity to variations in the spacing of features in faces and a class of nonface objects (i.e., frontal images of cars) was tested in 3- and 4-year-old children and adults using a delayed or simultaneous two-alternative forced choice matching-to-sample task. In the adults, detection of spacing information was robust against exemplar…
Descriptors: Cues, Memory, Preschool Children, Preschool Education
"Family Stories" and Their Implications for Preschoolers' Memories of Personal Events
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Larkina, Marina; Bauer, Patricia J. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2012
Most adults experience childhood amnesia: They have very few memories of events prior to 3 to 4 years of age. Nevertheless, some early memories are retained. Multiple factors likely are responsible for the survival of early childhood memories, including external representations such as videos, photographs, and conversations about past experiences,…
Descriptors: Adults, Retention (Psychology), Science Experiments, Recall (Psychology)
Helping Children Enter into Another's Experiences: The Look and Feel of It
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Foley, Mary Ann; Ratner, Hilary H.; Gentes, Emily – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2010
The role of focusing 4-year-olds' attention on "feeling" or "looking" was examined in three experiments by testing predictions about children's memory for their interactions with an adult partner as they engaged in a collaborative task. Children made collages with an adult partner, and they were later asked to remember who placed the pieces on the…
Descriptors: Memory, Art Products, Experiments, Interaction
Exploration of How Spanish and English Noneliciting Questions Affect the Novel Vocabulary Acquisition of Hispanic Dual Language Learners Enrolled in Head Start
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Walsh, Bridget A.; Rose, Katherine Kensinger; Sanchez, Claudia; Burnham, Melissa M. – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2012
Novel word learning in the context of shared storybook reading has been primarily investigated with monolingual children, while experiments with Hispanic dual language learners (DLLs) are less prevalent. This exploratory study investigated the extratextual stylistic behaviors of storybook reading that promote novel word learning in DLL…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Monolingualism, Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition
Japanese Children's and Adults' Reasoning about the Consequences of Psychogenic Bodily Reactions
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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
Analyzing False Memories in Children with Associative Lists Specific for Their Age
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Carneiro, Paula; Albuquerque, Pedro; Fernandez, Angel; Esteves, Francisco – Child Development, 2007
Two experiments attempted to resolve previous contradictory findings concerning developmental trends in false memories within the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) paradigm by using an improved methodology--constructing age-appropriate associative lists. The research also extended the DRM paradigm to preschoolers. Experiment 1 (N = 320) included…
Descriptors: Preadolescents, Models, Age Differences, Preschool Children