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No Strings Attached: Using 2D Paper Dolls and 3D Toy Puppets to Promote Young Children's Positive Responses towards Immigrants
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Jones, Siân E.; Dalnoki, Laura; Kaliff, Alicia; Muir, William; Uusitalo, Kiia; Uytman, Clare – Psychology of Education Review, 2020
Previous research indicates that imagining contact with someone who is an immigrant can reduce prejudice and promote positive friendship intentions. Much less is known about the optimal ways of effecting imagined contact. The reported research used an experimental design, where the status of a target-child toy puppet (immigrant versus refugee…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Refugees, Peer Relationship, Friendship
Developmental Reversals in False Memory: Development Is Complementary, Not Compensatory
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Brainerd, C. J.; Reyna, V. F.; Holliday, R. E. – Developmental Psychology, 2018
We report the 1st example of a true complementarity effect in memory development--a situation in which memory for the "same event" simultaneously becomes more and less accurate between early childhood and adulthood. We investigated this paradoxical effect because fuzzy-trace theory predicts that it can occur in paradigms that produce…
Descriptors: Memory, Cognitive Development, Age Differences, Children
Understanding of Idiomatic Expressions in Context in Skilled and Less Skilled Comprehenders: Online Processing and Interpretation
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Oakhill, Jane; Cain, Kate; Nesi, Barbara – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2016
This article reports a study in which good and poor comprehenders (in 2 age groups: 8- and 10-year-olds) read short passages containing phrases that could be interpreted as idiomatic or not, depending on the context. Familiarity was manipulated by including real (English) idioms and novel (translations of Italian) idioms. Reading times for the…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Reading Comprehension, Children, Age Differences
Do Challenge, Task Experience or Computer Familiarity Influence the Learning of Historical Chronology from Virtual Environments in 8-9 Year Old Children?
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Korallo, Liliya; Foreman, Nigel; Boyd-Davis, Stephen; Moar, Magnus; Coulson, Mark – Computers & Education, 2012
Studies examined the potential use of VEs in teaching historical chronology to 127 children of primary school age (8-9 years). The use of passive fly-through VEs had been found, in an earlier study, to be disadvantageous with this age group when tested for their subsequent ability to place displayed sequential events in correct chronological…
Descriptors: Age, Familiarity, Short Term Memory, Foreign Countries
The Development of Concepts of Loneliness during the Early Years in School
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Liepins, Maureen; Cline, Tony – School Psychology International, 2011
Earlier research has confirmed that loneliness is a universal phenomenon, experienced by children and adults. Few reports have been published of investigations of experiences of loneliness among school children in the United Kingdom. The aim of this study was to investigate how the ideas about loneliness held by British children develop during the…
Descriptors: Interviews, Psychological Patterns, Educational Psychology, Psychologists
Cavell, Literacy and What It Means to Read
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Fulford, Amanda J. – Ethics and Education, 2009
This paper explores three current notions of literacy, which underpin the theorisation and practice of teaching and learning for both children and adults in England. In so doing, it raises certain problems inherent in these approaches to literacy and literacy education and shows how Stanley Cavell's notions of reading, and especially his reading…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Familiarity, Foreign Countries, Literacy