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Direct linkDoyle, Randi A.; Voyer, Daniel; Cherney, Isabelle D. – Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2012
This study investigated the relation between childhood spatial activities and cognitive gender differences in adults through the validation of the Childhood Activities Questionnaire developed by Cherney and Voyer (2010). A sample of 403 (133 males, 270 females) undergraduates in Introductory Psychology courses at University of New Brunswick, NB,…
Descriptors: Children, Questionnaires, Foreign Countries, Spatial Ability
Girardi, Alberta; Pozzulo, Joanna D. – Social Work Research, 2012
The purpose of this study was to investigate the frequency with which child protection workers (CPWs) in Ontario, Canada, seek information about animal cruelty during investigations of child maltreatment and the extent to which they consider information about animal cruelty when making decisions about whether intervention is required. The CPWs (N…
Descriptors: Animals, Investigations, Intervention, Family Violence
Miles, Sarah J.; Minda, John Paul – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011
Current theories of category learning posit separate verbal and nonverbal learning systems. Past research suggests that the verbal system relies on verbal working memory and executive functioning and learns rule-defined categories; the nonverbal system does not rely on verbal working memory and learns non-rule-defined categories (E. M. Waldron…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Learning, Children, Short Term Memory, Investigations
Loke, Ivy Chiu; Heyman, Gail D.; Forgie, Julia; McCarthy, Anjanie; Lee, Kang – Developmental Psychology, 2011
The way children evaluate the reporting of peers' transgressions to authority figures was investigated. Participants, ages 6-11 years (N = 60), were presented with a series of vignettes, each of which depicted a child who committed either a minor transgression (such as not finishing the vegetables at lunch) or a more serious transgression (such as…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Moral Values, Investigations, Children
Fluke, John D.; Chabot, Martin; Fallon, Barbara; MacLaurin, Bruce; Blackstock, Cindy – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2010
Objective: This paper examined the relative influence of clinical and organizational characteristics on the decision to place a child in out-of-home care at the conclusion of a child maltreatment investigation. It tested the hypothesis that extraneous factors, specifically, organizational characteristics, impact the decision to place a child in…
Descriptors: Canada Natives, Placement, Decision Making, Influences
Cyr, Mireille; Lamb, Michael E. – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2009
Objectives: The study was designed to assess the effectiveness of the flexibly structured NICHD Investigative Interview Protocol for child sexual abuse (CSA) investigative interviews by police officers and mental health workers in Quebec. The NICHD Protocol was designed to operationalize "best practice" guidelines and to help forensic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interviews, Investigations, French
Lauster, Nathanael; Allan, Graham – University of British Columbia Press, 2011
Fertility rates have fallen dramatically around the world. In some countries, there are no longer enough children being born to replace adult populations. The disappearance of children is a matter of concern matched only by fears that childhood is becoming too structured or not structured enough, too short or too long, or just simply too different…
Descriptors: Investigations, Demography, Anthropology, Prediction
Trocme, Nico; Bala, Nicholas – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2005
Objective: The 1998 Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect (CIS-98) is the first national study to document the rate of intentionally false allegations of abuse and neglect investigated by child welfare services in Canada. This paper provides a detailed summary of the characteristics associated with intentionally false…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Investigations, Sampling, Child Welfare
