Julia Garon-Bissonnette, Lauren G. Bailes, Kate Kwasneski, Sarah Lempres, Sydney Takemoto, Lu Li, Julia DeLuca, Virginia C. Salo, Kathryn L. Humphreys
{"title":"Caregivers' cognitions about infants' mental and emotional states","authors":"Julia Garon-Bissonnette, Lauren G. Bailes, Kate Kwasneski, Sarah Lempres, Sydney Takemoto, Lu Li, Julia DeLuca, Virginia C. Salo, Kathryn L. Humphreys","doi":"10.1111/cdep.12537","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cdep.12537","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Given the relevance of caregivers' perceptions, cognitions, and emotions about their child's mental states for caregiving behavior and children's development, researchers from multiple theoretical perspectives have developed constructs to assess caregivers' cognitions, resulting in a large but scattered body of literature. In this article, we highlight the conceptual overlap among and uniqueness of six constructs assessing caregivers' cognitions about their child at 36 months and younger: infant intentionality, mental representations, mind-mindedness, parental embodied mentalizing, parental empathy, and parental reflective functioning. We define constructs, present approaches to measurement, and propose elements of importance that fall under the umbrella of caregivers' cognitions and that may be associated differentially with children's early cognitive and social–emotional development. We conclude with recommendations for researchers aiming to capture caregivers' cognitions about their child's mental states, whether focusing on one of the six reviewed constructs or on specific elements (e.g., awareness of the child's mind or accuracy of caregivers' perceptions of their child) under the umbrella of caregivers' cognitions.</p>","PeriodicalId":150,"journal":{"name":"Child Development Perspectives","volume":"19 3","pages":"146-155"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cdep.12537","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144814724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vladimir M. Sloutsky, Robby Ralston, Brandon M. Turner, Simona Ghetti
{"title":"A little imprecision goes a long way in launching memory development","authors":"Vladimir M. Sloutsky, Robby Ralston, Brandon M. Turner, Simona Ghetti","doi":"10.1111/cdep.12536","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cdep.12536","url":null,"abstract":"<p>From the earliest moments in their lives, infants begin to build memories about their past and accumulate knowledge about the world. In this article, we focus on the distinction between memory for <i>specific</i> events and memory for <i>general</i> information, and the ongoing debate about which type of memory provides the foundation for the development of the other. Some researchers argue that specific memory developmentally precedes general memory, whereas others support the opposite position. Our literature review suggests that the latter position is inconsistent with many empirical findings and theoretical principles of memory captured by computational models capable of accounting for these findings. We propose that <i>just good enough</i> mnemonic acuity could be a starting point for memory development, and that it can support both specific and generalized memories.</p>","PeriodicalId":150,"journal":{"name":"Child Development Perspectives","volume":"19 3","pages":"139-145"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cdep.12536","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144814598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Issue Information - Editorial Board","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/cdep.12535","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cdep.12535","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":150,"journal":{"name":"Child Development Perspectives","volume":"18 4","pages":"163-164"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cdep.12535","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142563027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Instrumental helping motivations of children and chimpanzees","authors":"Robert Hepach, Michael Tomasello","doi":"10.1111/cdep.12529","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cdep.12529","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Chimpanzees and other great apes seem to be much less cooperative than humans overall, yet they nevertheless reliably help others in many instrumental circumstances. Although in many contexts the helping behavior of chimpanzees is quite similar to that of human children, recent studies using both behavioral and psychophysiological paradigms have revealed important differences, specifically, in the underlying motivations for prosocial behavior. Here, we provide both a synthesis of recent empirical work and an evolutionary hypothesis that can account for the differences in chimpanzee and human helping motivations.</p>","PeriodicalId":150,"journal":{"name":"Child Development Perspectives","volume":"19 2","pages":"72-79"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cdep.12529","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143889056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jenna Spitzer, Stathis Grapsas, Astrid M. G. Poorthuis, Maarten Vansteenkiste, Sander Thomaes
{"title":"Coming of age in a warming world: A self-determination theory perspective","authors":"Jenna Spitzer, Stathis Grapsas, Astrid M. G. Poorthuis, Maarten Vansteenkiste, Sander Thomaes","doi":"10.1111/cdep.12534","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cdep.12534","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Today's youth are growing up in a world threatened by climate change. Facing an uncertain future, young people—and especially adolescents—tend to be concerned about climate change, even more so than other age groups. How can socializing agents (e.g., educators, policymakers, clinicians) support and engage adolescents as they come of age in a warming world? In this article, we review studies on climate change and youth development from the perspective of self-determination theory (SDT). SDT provides a framework for understanding a nascent body of literature on adolescents' responses to climate change. In particular, SDT offers insights into the factors that can facilitate or undermine adolescents' internalization of climate science, engagement in pro-environmental behavior, and capacity for resilience and well-being. We discuss SDT's potential to inform efforts to encourage positive youth development amid climate change, and we identify priorities for investigation.</p>","PeriodicalId":150,"journal":{"name":"Child Development Perspectives","volume":"19 3","pages":"129-138"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cdep.12534","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144815231","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"You are here! Rethinking children's executive function development in the presence of others","authors":"Aurélien Frick","doi":"10.1111/cdep.12533","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cdep.12533","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The development of executive function (EF) has been linked to various life outcomes, motivating intense research on the topic. While much of this research has focused on more thoroughly understanding age-related changes of the underlying neurocognitive mechanisms involved, recent theoretical and empirical works have stressed how the immediate physical and social context plays an important role in how children engage in control. Recent studies have shown that the experimenter is an important variable modulating how children engage EF. In this article, I argue that this social presence should be examined more thoroughly to understand the influence of the research context on assessing EF in children. However, this examination should not neglect the fact that the presence of others and the interactions with them likely shape the development of EF in the long run, with important interindividual differences. Examining how others affect children's development of EF can have important implications, such as better reproducibility of studies' findings and theoretical conceptions.</p>","PeriodicalId":150,"journal":{"name":"Child Development Perspectives","volume":"19 2","pages":"116-125"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cdep.12533","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143888849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Concurrences across time and sensorimotor capacities promote infant learning","authors":"Ye Li, Viridiana L. Benitez","doi":"10.1111/cdep.12531","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cdep.12531","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In infancy, sensorimotor capacities directly affect learning. Although developmental scientists have studied the link between sensorimotor capacities and learning, their work has focused primarily on a narrow window of time connecting just two domains. In this article, we propose that considering concurrences across multiple time points and domains provides novel insights into how sensorimotor capacities systematically shape learning. First, we present a developmental map synthesizing changes across the vision, motor, and language domains in the first 18 months of life. Using the map as a guide, we review literature identifying how changes in one sensorimotor domain affect learning. We then highlight additional concurrences that have not been systematically explored and use the concrete example of learning word-object mappings to illustrate how the developmental map provides rich ground to raise new questions and revisit old ones. We end with a call to action to fill key gaps in the map by considering variations in other domains and cultures, as well as in atypical development.</p>","PeriodicalId":150,"journal":{"name":"Child Development Perspectives","volume":"19 2","pages":"99-107"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143889157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The nature and development of cognitive offloading in children","authors":"Kristy L. Armitage, Sam J. Gilbert","doi":"10.1111/cdep.12532","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cdep.12532","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Humans routinely use external thinking tools, like pencil and paper, maps, and calculators, to solve cognitive problems that would have once been solved internally. As many youth face unprecedented exposure to increasingly capable technological aids, there is a growing pressure to understand children's cognitive offloading capacities and propensities, and what they stand to gain or lose as frequent offloaders in the modern world. In this article, we review emerging research on the development of cognitive offloading. Children as young as 4 years can engage in effective offloading strategies that follow principles similar to those used by adults—for example, greater recruitment of external support when tasks are more difficult. However, young children's strategies also show evidence of bias (sometimes inadequate and sometimes excessive offloading), lack of selectivity, and lack of self-initiation. We also draw attention to important avenues for future research, working toward protecting and nurturing children's cognitive well-being in the digital age.</p>","PeriodicalId":150,"journal":{"name":"Child Development Perspectives","volume":"19 2","pages":"108-115"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cdep.12532","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143889158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Designing equity-centered early learning assessments for today's young children","authors":"Emily C. Hanno, Ximena A. Portilla, JoAnn Hsueh","doi":"10.1111/cdep.12528","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cdep.12528","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this article, we adopt culturally relevant perspectives on developmental science that acknowledge and value the diversity of backgrounds and experiences of young children and their families to identify opportunities to advance the measurement of early childhood development. We focus on direct child assessments that can drive more equitable early learning experiences and outcomes by informing the work of educators and program- and system-level decision-makers. Specifically, we describe potential advancements in the <i>content</i> (what is measured), <i>method</i> (how assessments are conducted), and <i>output</i> (how data are presented) of early learning assessments. Throughout, we highlight opportunities to elevate the experiences of those who use assessment—children, families, educators, and administrators—to develop equity-centered, engaging assessments that provide comprehensive, fair, and useful insights.</p>","PeriodicalId":150,"journal":{"name":"Child Development Perspectives","volume":"19 2","pages":"92-98"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cdep.12528","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142196810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rethinking pubertal research: Embracing intersectionality","authors":"Rona Carter, Eleanor K. Seaton","doi":"10.1111/cdep.12527","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cdep.12527","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Scholars acknowledge the significant role of puberty in the risks for adverse outcomes. However, we lack understanding of the relevant social and structural factors at play. Current theoretical approaches to research on puberty were posited based on the experiences of White, middle-class girls who developed early or late, disregarding the interplay among cultural, societal, and individual factors that shape perceptions of pubescent children and their experiences. The limited focus on timing effects has failed to generate comprehensive knowledge of broader pubertal experiences. In this article, we argue that intersectional understanding can overcome current deficiencies in research on puberty. We critique the predominant theoretical approaches in pubertal research, provide an overview of the intersectionality framework, and elucidate how intersectionality can be incorporated into puberty research. We conclude with recommendations for research. In so doing, we hope the intersectionality framework allows scholars of puberty to rethink how pubertal effects are examined.</p>","PeriodicalId":150,"journal":{"name":"Child Development Perspectives","volume":"19 2","pages":"80-91"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cdep.12527","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141928664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}