{"title":"Joint picturebook interactions of mothers and 1‐year‐old children","authors":"J. Deloache, Olga A. P. DeMendoza","doi":"10.1111/J.2044-835X.1987.TB01047.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.2044-835X.1987.TB01047.X","url":null,"abstract":"One of the most common forms of interaction between parents and young children is picturebook reading. This study examined both the structure and content of picturebook interactions of 30 mothers and their 12-, 15-, or 18-month-old infants. Structural aspects of the interaction were relatively constant over the age range studied: For all three age groups the mothers controlled the interactions and took responsibility for determining which of the pictures would be talked about. The content of the interactions varied as a function of the age of the child. More active participation was demanded of older children. They were asked more questions by their mothers, and the information provided to them was more complex. For all age groups, maternal questioning was related to the mother's beliefs about her child's word knowledge; the mother was more likely to ask the child to label a picture if she thought the child knew that label. The results are interpreted in terms of the scaffolding construct. They reveal a general maternal orientation to elicit the best possible performance from the child. Several forms of maternal support are discussed.","PeriodicalId":224518,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Development Psychology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121191591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Assessing children's understanding of one‐to‐one correspondence","authors":"R. Cowan","doi":"10.1111/J.2044-835X.1987.TB01050.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.2044-835X.1987.TB01050.X","url":null,"abstract":"Brainerd's (1973) cardination test is supposed to assess children's understanding of one-to-one correspondence independently of their counting ability. Children's errors in this test could result from difficulty in executing a pairing strategy rather than defective understanding. This was tested by comparing performance on the cardination test displays with performance on such displays with guidelines added to make pairing easier. Both 5-year-olds and 7-year-olds took part. Guidelines helped both age groups; the 7-year-olds more than the 5-year-olds. There were very marked differences between the age groups.","PeriodicalId":224518,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Development Psychology","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116716091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Autism and symbolic play","authors":"S. Baron-Cohen","doi":"10.1111/J.2044-835X.1987.TB01049.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.2044-835X.1987.TB01049.X","url":null,"abstract":"Recent work suggests autistic children are impaired in their symbolic (or pretend) play. However, such studies have either used inadequate definitions of ‘pretend’, or have not examined spontaneous play. An experiment is reported which attempts to overcome these difficulties This confirms that autistic children are severely impaired in their ability to produce pretend play, in contrast to non-autistic retarded and normal controls. This is discussed in terms of the symbolic deficit theory (Ricks & Wing, 1975). It is argued that when a ‘symbol’ is defined as being a ‘second-order representation’, this theory has the potential to link both the social and pretend impairments in autism. The theory awaits more adequate testing.","PeriodicalId":224518,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Development Psychology","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114354431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Three-year-olds' difficulty with false belief: The case for a conceptual deficit","authors":"J. Perner, S. Leekam, H. Wimmer","doi":"10.1111/J.2044-835X.1987.TB01048.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.2044-835X.1987.TB01048.X","url":null,"abstract":"The hypothesis, that a conceptual limitation underlies 3-year-olds' difficulty with false-belief attribution (Wimmer & Perner, 1983), was tested against three competing hypotheses. These were: (1) failure to retain essential facts, (2) failure to understand the normal expectations which give rise to false belief and (3) pragmatic misinterpretation of the test question. Results showed that false-belief attribution remained difficult for younger 3-year-olds despite their retention of essential facts and despite attempts to make expectations more explicit and prevent pragmatic misinterpretation. These findings strengthen the original hypothesis, specified here as the inability to assign conflicting truth values to propositions. This hypothesis can explain why 3-year-olds find pretend play, the distinction between expected and achieved outcomes, the real-imaginary distinction and level 1 perspective taking easier to understand than false belief, the reality-appearance distinction and level 2 perspective taking.","PeriodicalId":224518,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Development Psychology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125856430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cognitive processes used by children writing Logo programs","authors":"S. M. Chambers","doi":"10.1111/J.2044-835X.1987.TB01052.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.2044-835X.1987.TB01052.X","url":null,"abstract":"Sternberg's (1984, 1985) componential theory was used as a theoretical framework for investigating the cognitive processes used by children of varying levels of expertise as they write Logo programs. Three kinds of processing are proposed by Sternberg: meta-component (M), performance component (P) and knowledge acquisition component (K) processing. Sternberg proposes that M processing mediates P and K processing in novel tasks. With increasing expertise local processing systems are constructed and M processing becomes less dominant, relative to P and K processing. The subjects were 312 primary school children from levels 1 to 7 who were introduced for the first time to Logo programming during two school years. Performance measures were based on two programming tasks, a computer knowledge test, four cognitive tasks and several psychometric tests. The measures of M, P and K processing used while programming were based on planning and style of programming (M), accuracy of programming (P) and mode of programming (K). The interrelationship for M, P and K processing proposed by Sternberg was given empirical support. There was evidence of local processing by children with more expertise. The use of M, P and K processing was found to depend on the nature of the programming task and the level of programming expertise. General non-programming skills were found to predict M processing rather than P or K processing, although the relative contribution of non-programming skills and domain-specific knowledge and skill was dependent on the nature of the task and the child's level of expertise. There was some evidence of enhancement of the use of the general skills due to Logo experience.","PeriodicalId":224518,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Development Psychology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125802567","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Children's representation of economic inequalities: The effects of social class","authors":"N. Emler, J. Dickinson","doi":"10.1111/J.2044-835X.1985.TB00971.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.2044-835X.1985.TB00971.X","url":null,"abstract":"Children aged 7 to 12 and drawn from contrasting social backgrounds made estimates of the incomes of people in different occupations and made judgements about the fairness of income differences. Middle-class children, as compared to working-class children, not only made higher overall estimates of income for all the occupations considered but also perceived a greater spread in incomes and a clearer division between manual and non-manual occupations. Irrespective of their own social class background, a majority of children regarded differences in income as justified on grounds of equity. However, the middle-class children appeared to possess a more extensive rationale for inequality and to be more committed to it. They also seemed more sensitive to other consequences of income differences. The results are discussed in terms of alternative theories of socio-cognitive development.","PeriodicalId":224518,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Development Psychology","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120188905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Mann, Charlotte Tan, C. Macleod-Morgan, Anne Dixon
{"title":"Developmental changes in application of the majority rule in group decisions","authors":"L. Mann, Charlotte Tan, C. Macleod-Morgan, Anne Dixon","doi":"10.1111/J.2044-835X.1984.TB00934.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.2044-835X.1984.TB00934.X","url":null,"abstract":"This study examined age-related changes in the child's application of the principle of majority rule in group decisions. Following a problem posed by Moessinger (1981), we enquired whether children routinely apply the majority rule when the majority consists of a shifting (variable) set of members across decisions, and alternate between majority and minority when the majority and minority is fixed, i.e. consists of the same individuals each time. In Geneva, Moessinger found that 8-year-olds failed to discriminate between fixed and shifting majorities, while most 13-year-olds (75 per cent) did so. An altered replication was conducted in Australia modifying Moessinger's procedure to control for extraneous variables such as ‘set’ and the need for variety in choice. It was found that on the task 7 per cent of 8-year-olds, 20 per cent of 10-year-olds, 32 per cent of 12-year-olds, and 39 per cent of 14-year-olds discriminated on a behavioural criterion between fixed and shifting majorities. Ten per cent of 8-year-olds, 40 per cent of 10-year-olds, 52 per cent of 12-year-olds, and 55 per cent of 14-year-olds made the discrimination on Moessinger's cognitive ‘reason’ criterion. The results show that development of the conceptual distinction between fixed and shifting majorities is gradual and continuous.","PeriodicalId":224518,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Development Psychology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117516801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ageing and the misplacing of objects","authors":"Y. Tenney","doi":"10.1111/J.2044-835X.1984.TB00533.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.2044-835X.1984.TB00533.X","url":null,"abstract":"A lost and found questionnaire was administered to 281 young and 153 old subjects to examine incidents in which objects were misplaced and recovered. Incidents were reported by 31·3 per cent of the young and 26·1 per cent of the old subjects, a difference that was not significant. Subjects reporting an incident rated themselves as more absentminded than subjects not reporting an incident. The roles of absentmindedness and perceptual problems in creating these incidents were examined. Only the latter showed significant differences with age. More old than young subjects reported finding the object in plain sight, in its proper place, and in a place already searched, suggesting a tendency with age to overlook objects in obvious places.","PeriodicalId":224518,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Development Psychology","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126532449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Infant perception of a manual pick-up event.","authors":"A. Leslie","doi":"10.1111/J.2044-835X.1984.TB00531.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.2044-835X.1984.TB00531.X","url":null,"abstract":"Manual pick-up of an object is a simple causal event frequently observed by infants. A habituation-recovery of looking technique with filmed stimuli is used in experiments which seek to investigate aspects of the perception and encoding of such events in infants. In the first study with 28-week-olds, it is found that ‘lateral mirror-image’ pick-ups are hardly discriminable, while a change in the contact relation of hand and object is readily discriminable. In the second, again with 28-week-olds, the discriminability of the contact relation appears to be specific to a dynamic context involving a hand (rather than another inanimate object). The results of a further experiment make it appear unlikely that the previous results were simply due to the partial occlusion of the picked-up object produced by the grasping. The implications of these results for infant perception of causality are briefly considered.","PeriodicalId":224518,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Development Psychology","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115151362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
I. Bushnell, E. McCutcheon, J. Sinclair, M. E. Tweedlie
{"title":"Infants' delayed recognition memory for colour and form","authors":"I. Bushnell, E. McCutcheon, J. Sinclair, M. E. Tweedlie","doi":"10.1111/J.2044-835X.1984.TB00530.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.2044-835X.1984.TB00530.X","url":null,"abstract":"Delayed recognition memory was investigated in 5- and 9-week-old infants after extensive familiarization to a visual stimulus. Both age groups were found to demonstrate memory for colour and form information after a 24 hour delay. In addition the location of testing, relative to the location of familiarization, was found to influence the apparent strength of memory, while there was no effect of sex nor evidence of additivity of stimulus dimensions.","PeriodicalId":224518,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Development Psychology","volume":"121 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122893953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}