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Nakamichi, Naoko – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2022
A food's visual features and testimony from others are important clues for children when making food choices. Children must integrate these two forms of information to make choices about food. The present study investigated children's food choices when these two clues are presented together. After confirming that children between the ages of…
Descriptors: Young Children, Food, Visual Stimuli, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension)
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Beery, Thomas; Chawla, Louise; Levin, Peter – International Journal of Early Childhood Environmental Education, 2020
This paper examines the meaning, assessment, and development of connection to nature (C2N) in two- to five-year-old children. It grows out of a Connection to Nature Workshop organized by the University of Florida, Stanford University, the North American Association for Environmental Education, and the Children and Nature Network to evaluate…
Descriptors: Young Children, Natural Resources, Animals, Peer Influence
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Kalagher, Hilary; Jones, Susan S. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2011
Adults vary their haptic exploratory behavior reliably with variation both in the sensory input and in the task goals. Little is known about the development of these connections between perceptual goals and exploratory behaviors. A total of 36 children ages 3, 4, and 5 years and 20 adults completed a haptic intramodal match-to-sample task.…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Child Development, Young Children, Adults
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Johnson, Carla J.; Clark, James M. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1988
Two studies examining three correlates of child picture naming difficulty (age of name acquisition, picture-to-name uncertainty, and name generality) suggested that picture-naming reflected both the availability of the name in the lexical memory and the name's accessibility, which, in turn, partly depended on the amount of interference from…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Child Language, Pictorial Stimuli
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Smith, Linda B.; Sera, Maria D. – Cognitive Psychology, 1992
Six experiments involving 279 2- to 5-year-old children, 52 undergraduates, and 16 adults examined the interaction of perception and language in the development of magnitude marking of size, loudness, and achromatic color. Results suggest converging interactions between perception and language for size and loudness and antagonistic interactions…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Child Development, Cognitive Processes
ECKERT, HELEN M.; ESPENSCHADE, ANNA S. – 1967
DESIGNED AS A TEXT FOR UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS AND AS A SOURCEBOOK FOR MORE ADVANCED STUDENTS, THIS VOLUME TRACES THE OUTLINES OF PHYSICAL GROWTH AND DECLINE, DESCRIBES SOME OF THE METHODS AND PROBLEMS OF INVESTIGATORS, AND POINTS TO THE PAUCITY OF INFORMATION IN CERTAIN AREAS. THE MAJOR TOPICS ARE (1) HEREDITY, (2) PRENATAL MATERNAL INFLUENCES,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Development, Adults, Biological Influences