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Mechanisms of cross-situational learning: Behavioral and computational evidence
Publication date: Available online 23 February 2019Source: Advances in Child Development and BehaviorAuthor(s): Yayun Zhang, Chi-hsin Chen, Chen YuAbstractWord learning happens in everyday contexts with many words and many potential referents for those words in view at the same time. It is challenging for young learners to find the correct referent upon hearing an unknown word at the moment. This problem of referential uncertainty has been deemed as the crux of early word learning (Quine, 1960). Recent empirical and computational studies have found support for a statistical solution to the problem termed cross-situational ...
Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior - February 23, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Cognitive functioning in children with Down syndrome: Current knowledge and future directions
Publication date: Available online 21 February 2019Source: Advances in Child Development and BehaviorAuthor(s): Angela F. Lukowski, Helen M. Milojevich, Lauren EalesAbstractInfants and children with Down syndrome (DS) can look forward toward bright futures, as individuals with DS are living healthier, more productive lives than ever due to medical advances, opportunities for early and continued intervention, and inclusive education. Despite these advances, infants and children with DS experience challenges in specific domains of cognitive functioning relative to their typically developing (TD) peers. Over the long term, in...
Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior - February 22, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

When representation becomes reality: Interactive digital media and symbolic development
Publication date: Available online 23 January 2019Source: Advances in Child Development and BehaviorAuthor(s): Georgene L. Troseth, Israel Flores, Zachary D. StuckelmanAbstractOne challenge of using an interesting object such as a scale model as a symbol for something else is children's deep interest in the object itself. Attending to the model (the symbol) as a toy, children do not use information about where in the model a tiny dog is hiding to mentally represent where a larger dog is hiding in the full-sized room (the referent). Young children use pictures in this way because they are relatively uninteresting as objects...
Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior - January 24, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Understanding strategy change: Contextual, individual, and metacognitive factors
Publication date: Available online 2 January 2019Source: Advances in Child Development and BehaviorAuthor(s): Martha W. Alibali, Sarah A. Brown, David MenendezAbstractLearning, development, and response to instruction often involve changes in the strategies that learners use to solve problems. In this chapter, our focus is on mathematical problem solving in both children and adults. We offer a selective review of research on three classes of factors that may influence processes of strategy change in mathematical problem solving: contextual factors, individual factors, and metacognitive factors. Contextual factors involve i...
Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior - January 3, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Speaking your mind: Language and narrative in young children's theory of mind development
Publication date: Available online 2 January 2019Source: Advances in Child Development and BehaviorAuthor(s): Virginia Tompkins, M. Jeffrey Farrar, Derek E. MontgomeryAbstractResearch consistently finds that language and theory of mind are interrelated. The content and qualities of language that specifically predict theory of mind remain under investigation and the question of why language might impact theory of mind development is open. In this chapter we analyze and highlight current findings and theory addressing theory of mind and language. The principal focus is upon typically developing children between ages 2 and 5,...
Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior - January 3, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Cultural influences on the development of children's memory and cognition
Publication date: Available online 27 December 2018Source: Advances in Child Development and BehaviorAuthor(s): Hongyuan Qi, Kim P. RobertsAbstractMemory is socially constructed. The types of information that children pay attention to and remember, as well as how children organize and recall their memories can differ as a function of sociocultural background. This chapter presents an overview of cultural variations on children's memory and cognition. We draw attention to the necessity of conducting controlled experiments to examine cultural differences in the specific processes involved in episodic memory (e.g., encoding, ...
Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior - December 28, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Cultural snapshots: A method to capture social contexts in development of prejudice and stereotyping
Publication date: Available online 21 December 2018Source: Advances in Child Development and BehaviorAuthor(s): Kristin Pauker, Elizabeth L. Brey, Sarah A. Lamer, Max WeisbuchAbstractThe scientific identification of how social environments transmit intergroup biases is a transparently complex endeavor. Existing research has examined the emergence of intergroup biases such as racial prejudice and stereotypes in many ways, including correlations between racial diversity and children's prejudice, content analyses of features in the media, or experiments testing the influence of selected variables with unknown prevalence in ch...
Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior - December 22, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

The science of early moral development: On defining, constructing, and studying morality from birth
Publication date: Available online 19 December 2018Source: Advances in Child Development and BehaviorAuthor(s): Audun DahlAbstractThe first 4 years of moral development are perhaps the most transformative. Helpless neonates become infants who routinely help and harm others; infants develop into preschoolers who make moral judgments based on moral concerns with welfare. Over the past two decades, there has been tremendous empirical progress, but also theoretical stalemates, in research on early moral development. To advance the field, this chapter argues for providing definitions of key terms, adopting an interactionist and...
Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior - December 20, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Advances in Child Development and Behavior
Publication date: 2018Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 55Author(s): (Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior)
Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior - July 19, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

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Publication date: 2018Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 55Author(s): (Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior)
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Front Matter
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Copyright
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Contributors
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Preface
Publication date: 2018Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 55Author(s): Jodie M. Plumert (Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior)
Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior - July 19, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Chapter One - How Perception and Action Fosters Exploration and Selection in Infant Skill Acquisition
Publication date: 2018Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 55Author(s): Daniela Corbetta, Abigail DiMercurio, Rebecca F. Wiener, John P. Connell, Matthew ClarkAbstractIn this chapter, we discuss how perception and action are intimately linked to the processes of exploration and selection. Exploration, which we define as trying several variations of the behavior, and selection, which involves attempting to reproduce the behaviors that work, are essential for learning about the environment, discovering the properties of objects, and for acquiring skills in relation to goals. Exploration and selection h...
Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior - July 19, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research