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Counterfactual Choices and Moral Judgments in Children
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Gautam, Shalini; Owen Hall, Ruby; Suddendorf, Thomas; Redshaw, Jonathan – Child Development, 2023
When making moral judgments of past actions, adults often think counterfactually about what could have been done differently. Considerable evidence suggests that counterfactual thinking emerges around age 6, but it remains unknown how this development influences children's moral judgments. Across two studies, Australian children aged 4-9 (N = 236,…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Moral Values, Developmental Stages, Child Development
Intimate Partner Violence during Infancy and Cognitive Outcomes in Middle Childhood: Results from an Australian Community-Based Mother and Child Cohort Study
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Savopoulos, Priscilla; Brown, Stephanie; Anderson, Peter J.; Gartland, Deirdre; Bryant, Christina; Giallo, Rebecca – Child Development, 2022
The cognitive functioning of children who experience intimate partner violence (IPV) has received less attention than their emotional-behavioral outcomes. Drawing upon data from 615 (48.4% female) 10-year-old Australian-born children and their mothers (9.6% of mothers born in non-English speaking countries) participating in a community-based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cognitive Processes, Children, Family Violence
Effects of the Similarity and Dissimilarity between Familiarization and Test Objects on Recognition Memory in Infants Following Unimodal and Bimodal Familiarization.
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Rolfe, Sharne A.; Day, R. H. – Child Development, 1981
Two experiments were conducted to investigate six-month-old infants' recognition memory for the shape of an object following unimodal (visual) and bimodal (visual and haptic) familiarization. Visual recognition memory was evident only when the conditions of familiarization and testing were identical. Two possible explanations are presented and…
Descriptors: Attention, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries, Infants
The Development of Memory and Processing Capacity.
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Halford, Graeme S.; And Others – Child Development, 1994
Four experiments with children aged 5 through 12 tested the relationship between short-term memory (STM) and processing capacity. The results suggest that effects obtained with STM span do not provide clear indications of overall working memory development, because STM span and the processing space component of working memory entail distinct…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes