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Blankenship, Tashauna L.; Kibbe, Melissa M. – Child Development, 2023
The ability to use knowledge to guide the completion of goals is a critical cognitive skill, but 3-year-olds struggle to complete goals that require multiple steps. This study asked whether 3-year-olds could benefit from "plan chunking" to complete multistep goals. Thirty-two U.S. children (range = 35.75-46.59 months; 18 girls; 9 white,…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Cognitive Ability, Memory, Maps
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Repacholi, Betty M.; Meltzoff, Andrew N. – Child Development, 2007
Two experiments examined whether 18-month-olds learn from emotions directed to a third party. Infants watched an adult perform actions on objects, and an Emoter expressed Anger or Neutral affect toward the adult in response to her actions. The Emoter then became neutral and infants were given access to the objects. Infants' actions were influenced…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Psychological Patterns, Affective Behavior
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Vogel, Juliet M. – Child Development, 1977
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Memory, Orientation, Pictorial Stimuli
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Anooshian, Linda J.; Wilson, Katryn L. – Child Development, 1977
Presents a study of the effect of distance distortion in perceived route extensity on memory for the location of objects in a spatial array. (JMB)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Kindergarten Children, Logical Thinking
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Fisher, Celia B. – Child Development, 1979
In Experiment I, 24 preschoolers were tested on left-right, vertical-horizontal, and mirror-image oblique discriminations under essentially context-free conditions. Experiment II contrasted children's performance under context-free conditions with their ability to discriminate orientation in the presence of external visual cues. (RH)
Descriptors: Cues, Memory, Orientation, Preschool Children