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Chapter Three - Interventions in Early Mathematics: Avoiding Pollution and Dilution
Publication date: 2017Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 53Author(s): Julie Sarama, Douglas H. ClementsAbstractAlthough specific interventions in early mathematics have been successful, few have been brought to scale successfully, especially across the challenging diversity of populations and contexts in the early childhood system in the United States. In this chapter, we analyze a theoretically based scale-up model for early mathematics that was designed to avoid the pollution and dilution that often plagues efforts to achieve broad success. We elaborate the theoretical framework by noting the junc...
Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior - July 5, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Chapter Three - Above and Beyond Objects: The Development of Infants’ Spatial Concepts
Publication date: 2018Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 54Author(s): Marianella CasasolaAbstractEarly in development infants form categorical representations of small-scale spatial relations, such as left vs right and above vs below. This spatial skill allows infants to experience coherence in the layout of the objects in their environment and to note the equivalence of a spatial relation across changes in objects. Comparisons across studies of infant spatial categorization offer insight into the processes that contribute to the development of this skill. Rather than viewing contrasting results acr...
Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior - July 5, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Chapter Four - Children's Developing Ideas About Knowledge and Its Acquisition
Publication date: 2018Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 54Author(s): Samuel Ronfard, Deborah T. Bartz, Liao Cheng, Xinkui Chen, Paul L. HarrisAbstractWe review key aspects of young children's concept of knowledge. First, we discuss children's early insights into the way that information can be communicated from informant to recipient as well as their active search for information via questions. We then analyze the way that preschool children talk explicitly and cogently about knowledge and the presuppositions they make in doing so. We argue that all children, irrespective of culture and language, e...
Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior - July 5, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Chapter Seven - Social Influence on Positive Youth Development: A Developmental Neuroscience Perspective
Publication date: 2018Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 54Author(s): Eva H. Telzer, Jorien van Hoorn, Christina R. Rogers, Kathy T. DoAbstractSusceptibility to social influence is associated with a host of negative outcomes during adolescence. However, emerging evidence implicates the role of peers and parents in adolescents’ positive and adaptive adjustment. Hence, in this chapter we highlight social influence as an opportunity for promoting social adjustment, which can redirect negative trajectories and help adolescents thrive. We discuss influential models about the processes underlying social...
Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior - July 5, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Chapter Five - The Developmental Origins of Dehumanization
Publication date: 2018Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 54Author(s): Niamh McLoughlin, Harriet OverAbstractDehumanization is a complex social phenomenon, intimately connected to intergroup harm and neglect. However, developmental research has only recently started to investigate this important topic. In this chapter, we review research in areas closely related to dehumanization including children's intergroup preferences, essentialist conceptions of social groups, and understanding of relative status. We then highlight the small number of recent studies that have investigated the development of thi...
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Chapter Six - Trends and Divergences in Childhood Income Dynamics, 1970–2010
Publication date: 2018Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 54Author(s): Heather D. HillAbstractEarnings and income variability have increased since the 1970s, particularly at the bottom of the income distribution. Considerable evidence suggests that childhood income levels—captured as average or point-in-time yearly income—are associated with numerous child and adult outcomes. The importance to child development of stable proximal processes during childhood suggests that income variability may also be important, particularly if it is unpredictable, unintentional, or does not reflect an upward tren...
Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior - July 5, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Chapter Eight - Kin Networks and Mobility in the Transition to Adulthood
Publication date: 2018Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 54Author(s): Janel E. Benson, Anastassia BougakovaAbstractFamily support is critical for launching youth into successful adult lives. Although studies have documented the association between family support and success in the transition to young adulthood, existing work focuses primarily on parental support, giving little attention to extended kin. This narrow definition of family may miss critical exchanges of support, especially among low-income families. Drawing on panel survey data (n = 450) and in-depth interviews (n = ...
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Contributors
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Preface
Publication date: 2018Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 54Author(s): Janette B. Benson (Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior)
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Chapter One - A Social-Interactive Neuroscience Approach to Understanding the Developing Brain
Publication date: 2018Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 54Author(s): Elizabeth Redcay, Katherine Rice WarnellAbstractFrom birth onward, social interaction is central to our everyday lives. Our ability to seek out social partners, flexibly navigate and learn from social interactions, and develop social relationships is critically important for our social and cognitive development and for our mental and physical health. Despite the importance of our social interactions, the neurodevelopmental bases of such interactions are underexplored, as most research examines social processing in noninteractive c...
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Chapter Two - Cognition–Action Trade-Offs Reflect Organization of Attention in Infancy
Publication date: 2018Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 54Author(s): Sarah E. Berger, Regina T. Harbourne, Melissa N. HorgerAbstractThis chapter discusses what cognition–action trade-offs in infancy reveal about the organization and developmental trajectory of attention. We focus on internal attention because this aspect is most relevant to the immediate concerns of infancy, such as fluctuating levels of expertise, balancing multiple taxing skills simultaneously, learning how to control attention under variable conditions, and coordinating distinct psychological domains. Cognition–action trade-...
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The Development of Sensorimotor Intelligence in Infants
Publication date: Available online 21 May 2018Source: Advances in Child Development and BehaviorAuthor(s): Claes von Hofsten, Kerstin RosanderAbstractInfancy is the most dynamic part of human development. During this period, all basic sensorimotor and cognitive abilities are established. In this chapter, we will trace some of the important achievements of this development with a focus on how infants achieve predictive control of actions, i.e., how they come to coordinate their behavior with the ongoing events in the world without lagging behind. With the maturation of the brain, new possibilities that have profound effect...
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Physical Growth, Body Scale, and Perceptual-Motor Development
Publication date: Available online 21 May 2018Source: Advances in Child Development and BehaviorAuthor(s): Karl M. Newell, Michael G. WadeAbstractIn this chapter we consider from the theoretical framework of the ecological approach to perception and action, the relations between physical growth and body scale in the context of children's perceptual-motor development. Body scale and the timescale of its change through growth are shown to relate to the emergence and dissolution of the fundamental skills in infancy, the perception of what an environment affords functionally for action, together with the emergent pattern of m...
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The Development of Object Fitting: The Dynamics of Spatial Coordination
Publication date: Available online 28 May 2018Source: Advances in Child Development and BehaviorAuthor(s): Jeffrey J. Lockman, Nicholas E. Fears, Wendy P. JungAbstractFitting objects into apertures is an adaptive skill that is incorporated into the design of many tools. We match or align shapes with openings when we insert keys into locks, when we put lids atop containers, or when we align a screwdriver with the groove of a screw. Traditionally, the development of object fitting has focused on children's abilities to successfully complete shape sorter tasks (e.g., square peg through square hole). By measuring children's su...
Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior - July 5, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research