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Dujardin, Adinda; Bosmans, Guy; De Raedt, Rudi; Braet, Caroline – Developmental Psychology, 2015
There is increasing interest in attachment-related social information processing, including children's attentional processing of information regarding the attachment figure. Previous research in middle childhood revealed evidence for a stronger attentional focus toward mother in children with less secure attachment expectations. However, the…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Attention, Cognitive Processes, Children
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De Weerdt, Frauke; Desoete, Annemie; Roeyers, Herbert – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2013
Elementary school children with reading disabilities (RD; "n" = 17), mathematical disabilities (MD; "n" = 22), or combined reading and mathematical disabilities (RD+MD; "n" = 28) were compared to average achieving (AA; "n" = 45) peers on working memory measures. On all working memory components, 2 (RD vs. no…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Short Term Memory, Reading Difficulties, Mathematics Skills
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Withagen, Ans; Vervloed, Mathijs P. J.; Janssen, Neeltje M.; Knoors, Harry; Verhoeven, Ludo – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2010
This study of 48 children with congenital blindness who attended mainstream schools focused on the tactile and haptic skills they needed in typical academic and everyday tasks. The results showed that, in general, the children mastered such tactile tasks, but some items posed special problems. (Contains 4 tables.)
Descriptors: Blindness, Children, Mainstreaming, Student Needs
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Verschaffel, Lieven; Reybrouck, Mark; Jans, Christine; Van Dooren, Wim – Cognition and Instruction, 2010
This study investigates children's metarepresentational competence with regard to listening to and making sense of simple sonic stimuli. Using diSessa's (2003) work on metarepresentational competence in mathematics and sciences as theoretical and empirical background, it aims to assess children's criteria for representational adequacy of graphical…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Auditory Stimuli, Music Education, Criteria
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Roskam, Isabelle; Meunier, Jean Christophe – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2009
How do parenting concepts vary within and between the families? The present study regards parenting as a complex family process by considering three concepts of parenting: styles, differential treatment and coparenting consistency. A main question was addressed: whether and how these parenting concepts vary within the families towards siblings or…
Descriptors: Children, Preadolescents, Gender Differences, Family Structure