Katherine M. Walton , Alayna R. Borowy , Madison L. Fecher , Laura Wagner
{"title":"Can you teach me how to open the box?: Examining young children’s teaching behavior toward adults with and without disabilities","authors":"Katherine M. Walton , Alayna R. Borowy , Madison L. Fecher , Laura Wagner","doi":"10.1016/j.cogdev.2024.101449","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2024.101449","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study examined how children (31–71 months; <em>N</em> = 85) adjusted their teaching behaviors with three learners, each posing different communicative challenges, in comparison to a control learner, who showed no communicative challenge. With a Disabled learner, children showed fewer explicit teaching behaviors, and more eye contact with their parents and/or the primary experimenter as compared to when teaching a Control learner. With a Tired learner who followed identical scripted actions as the Disabled learner, children’s overall rate of teaching behaviors was largely unchanged. With a Spanish Speaking learner, children spoke less frequently but showed more frequent eye contact with the learner. These results demonstrate that while preschool children can modify their teaching strategies to adapt to the needs of different learners, they appear to teach less effectively and show markers of uncertainty when teaching to learners with disabilities.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51422,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Development","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 101449"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0885201424000340/pdfft?md5=76cab14c0e05affb1e6904f865493b4e&pid=1-s2.0-S0885201424000340-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140905360","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Children’s biological causal models of disability","authors":"David Menendez , Susan A. Gelman","doi":"10.1016/j.cogdev.2024.101448","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2024.101448","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The term “disability” encompasses many conditions (including a range of learning, intellectual, physical, sensory and socioemotional disorders) that can be caused by a variety of genetic, environmental, and unknown factors. We examine how children reason about the biological nature of disabilities, specifically the extent to which they use 'essentialist', 'infectious disease', or 'bodily damage' causal models. These models provide competing predictions regarding the biological nature of disability. The essentialist model views disabilities as caused by an internal essence, akin to genes, and entails thinking of disabilities as stable, immutable, and inheritable. The infectious disease model views disabilities as communicable, abnormal, and needing intervention. The bodily damage model views disabilities as resulting from injuries or toxins, which maybe stable but are not inheritable or transmissible. We review what is known about children's acquisition of these models, and discuss how disentangling these biological models is a fruitful avenue for future research.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51422,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Development","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 101448"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140950880","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Research on bilingual language processing and how languages are represented in the mind","authors":"Norbert Francis","doi":"10.1016/j.cogdev.2024.101442","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2024.101442","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Bilingual ability arises naturally in young children exposed to two languages, while second language learning among children and adults often results in bilingual ability as well. <em>The study of bilingual language processing</em>, by Nan Jiang (2023), goes beyond what the title announces to take up the related questions of how knowledge of two languages is represented. The study explores the nature of the underlying linguistic structures and how they interface with other cognitive domains. Thus, research on both aspects of bilingualism helps us better understand language development in general. This review essay will examine some of the broader implications for psychological science that the author suggests. The findings from the research are extensive, and the following discussion will propose the possibility of a partial convergence on questions that have been the subject of debate among specialists.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51422,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Development","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 101442"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140544021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Language-dependent reminiscing: Bilingual mother-child autobiographical conversations differ across Thai and English","authors":"Sirada Rochanavibhata , Viorica Marian","doi":"10.1016/j.cogdev.2024.101445","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2024.101445","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Cross-linguistic differences in narrative patterns were examined in bilingual mother-preschooler dyads. Twenty-six Thai-English bilingual mothers and their four-year-old children completed a reminiscing task where they jointly recalled autobiographical memories in response to word prompts. Bilingual mothers and children exhibited different reminiscing styles in each of their languages. Specifically, bilinguals adopted high-elaborative and child-centered styles (e.g., use of evaluative feedback) when speaking English and low-elaborative and adult-centered styles (e.g., use of directives) when speaking Thai. Additionally, positive associations between maternal and child narrative patterns in both languages suggested that mothers’ scaffolding strategies influenced children’s own emerging linguistic skills. Findings from the present study show that bilingual mothers socialize their children differently across languages. In turn, children learn to present themselves in distinct ways depending on the linguistic and social contexts. We conclude that language can cue culture-specific communicative and behavioral norms as early as preschool.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51422,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Development","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 101445"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140813688","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Julie M. Hupp , Melissa K. Jungers , Jarrett A. Rardon , Austin M. Posey , Samantha A. McDonald
{"title":"The effect of prosodic congruency on novel adjective learning in adults and children","authors":"Julie M. Hupp , Melissa K. Jungers , Jarrett A. Rardon , Austin M. Posey , Samantha A. McDonald","doi":"10.1016/j.cogdev.2024.101457","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cogdev.2024.101457","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Prosody is used to indicate emotions, disambiguate syntax, and provide meaning. Less is known about prosody in word learning, but congruent prosody (e.g., loud/low pitch for large) leads to better memory than incongruent prosody (e.g., quiet/high pitch for large) for novel adjectives in adults (Shintel, Anderson, & Fenn, 2014). Children may also benefit from congruent prosodic information in word learning. This current research explores prosodic congruency and novel adjective learning in adults (Study 1) and preschool children (Study 2). Participants learned novel adjectives that were either congruent or incongruent in prosody and then they were tested in an implicit/picture task and an explicit/definition task. Although the prosody was not necessary to learn the words, the congruent condition showed greater accuracy than the incongruent condition across both tasks for adults and for the explicit task for children. This is the first demonstration that preschool children can benefit from congruent prosody, not just for referent selection, but also for learning novel adjectives.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51422,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Development","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 101457"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S088520142400042X/pdfft?md5=4a009e3ee3ff6428b74c9a300e7f42e7&pid=1-s2.0-S088520142400042X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141193816","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Markus Paulus , Tamara Becher , Natalie Christner , Marina Kammermeier , Burkhard Gniewosz , Carolina Pletti
{"title":"When do children begin to care for others? The ontogenetic growth of empathic concern across the first two years of life","authors":"Markus Paulus , Tamara Becher , Natalie Christner , Marina Kammermeier , Burkhard Gniewosz , Carolina Pletti","doi":"10.1016/j.cogdev.2024.101439","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2024.101439","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Empathic concern for others plays a central role for human cooperation and is proposed to be key in moral development. Developmental theories disagree on the age of emergence of empathic concern in human ontogeny and the factors supporting its early development. To assess different theoretical views, the current study longitudinally assessed infants’ (N = 127) reactions towards an experimenter and their mothers simulating pain at 6, 10, 14, and 18 months. As an emotional control condition, infants’ reactions towards a laughing experimenter were assessed. Maternal sensitivity, children’s temperamental emotionality, and self-recognition were included as predictors. True intraindividual change models were applied to capture the growth of empathic concern in early development. Overall, there were minor and inconsistent differences in children’s responses to laughing and crying others in the first year of life, whereas clear differences emerged in the second year. At 6 months, scale values of empathic concern were significantly related to measures of infant distress suggesting that infants experience emotional contagion and not veridical empathic concern. At 18 months, children’s concern towards the experimenter was related to their concern towards their mother. Maternal sensitivity, negative emotionality and self-recognition were related to children’s empathic concern within the second year. These findings suggest that empathic concern emerges in the second year and point to a gradual emergence of concern for others in human ontogeny.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51422,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Development","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 101439"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0885201424000248/pdfft?md5=15868644c7d957da0dc9e05dea9de5b3&pid=1-s2.0-S0885201424000248-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140190872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Wienke Wannagat , Gerhild Nieding , Catharina Tibken
{"title":"Age-related decline of metacognitive comprehension monitoring in adults aged 50 and older: Effects of cognitive abilities and educational attainment","authors":"Wienke Wannagat , Gerhild Nieding , Catharina Tibken","doi":"10.1016/j.cogdev.2024.101440","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2024.101440","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>When reading complex expository texts, comprehension benefits from metacognitive monitoring of the comprehension process, which, in part, relies on memory and reasoning abilities that decrease with age. In a cross-sectional study, we examined age-related differences regarding metacognitive comprehension monitoring in adults aged between 50 and 77 (<em>N</em> = 176, <em>M</em> = 63;10 years, <em>SD</em> = 6;2). As an indicator of comprehension monitoring, we considered the number of detected inconsistencies in an inconsistency task. Our findings indicated a moderate but steady decrease of comprehension monitoring, which was mediated via a decrease in verbal intelligence. Besides this negative effect of age, we found a positive effect of educational attainment on comprehension monitoring. Thus, continued experience with texts, for instance provided in jobs that require a university degree, appears to positively affect comprehension monitoring. There was, however, no evidence of a compensatory effect of education on age-related declines in comprehension monitoring.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51422,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Development","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 101440"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S088520142400025X/pdfft?md5=94c125f06850dc8c71cbc48df7571e30&pid=1-s2.0-S088520142400025X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140180452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Faryal Khan , Brooke Wortsman , Hannah L. Whitehead , Joelle Hannon , Medha Aurora , Michael J. Sulik , Fabrice Tanoh , Hermann Akpe , Amy Ogan , Jelena Obradović , Kaja K. Jasińska
{"title":"Modeling the associations between socioeconomic risk factors, executive function components, and reading among children in rural Côte d’Ivoire","authors":"Faryal Khan , Brooke Wortsman , Hannah L. Whitehead , Joelle Hannon , Medha Aurora , Michael J. Sulik , Fabrice Tanoh , Hermann Akpe , Amy Ogan , Jelena Obradović , Kaja K. Jasińska","doi":"10.1016/j.cogdev.2024.101436","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2024.101436","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Executive Functions (inhibitory control, cognitive flexibility and working memory) mediate the relationship between socioeconomic status and reading. However, little is known of the roles of individual executive functioning components in mediating the socioeconomic-reading achievement gap, especially in low- and middle-income countries. In Côte d’Ivoire, children experience many socioeconomic disadvantages (i.e., fewer household resources, maternal illiteracy), and kinship fostering (child in care of extended family while parents pursue economic opportunities elsewhere) is prevalent. This study examines the relation between executive functioning components, socioeconomic risks, and reading among 5th grade children in rural Côte d’Ivoire (<em>N =</em> 369). Poorer working memory mediated the relationship between higher cumulative socioeconomic risk (poverty, maternal illiteracy, fostering) and lower reading scores. Further, working memory fully mediated the negative effects of fostering risk on reading scores. Results suggest that executive functioning components are differentially impacted by environmental socioeconomic risks and play different roles in supporting reading development.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51422,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Development","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 101436"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140122929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Children’s understanding of COVID-19: Acquiring knowledge about germs and contagion amidst a global pandemic","authors":"Amanda C. Brandone","doi":"10.1016/j.cogdev.2024.101433","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2024.101433","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study aimed to shed light on the causal frameworks utilized by children (5-, 7-, and 9-year-olds; <em>n</em> = 92) and adults (<em>n</em> = 30) to understand the transmission of COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants’ use of two prominent causal frameworks was examined: (1) a mechanical framework appealing to germ transfer and internalization (e.g., “Breathing people’s air sends germs into your body”), and (2) a biological framework appealing to the notion that germs are living things (e.g., “The virus lives and multiplies inside the body”). Results showed that participants at all ages relied on the mechanical framework to explain the transmission of COVID-19. Adults also invoked the biological framework in their explanations; however, 5- to 9-year-olds showed little evidence of biological reasoning. Findings are interpreted in terms of the potential role of the COVID-19 pandemic in shaping children’s knowledge and the implications of these findings for health and safety.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51422,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Development","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 101433"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140015313","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yue Qi , Yinghe Chen , Xiao Yu , Xiujie Yang , Xinyi He , Xiaoyu Ma
{"title":"The relationships among working memory, inhibitory control, and mathematical skills in primary school children: Analogical reasoning matters","authors":"Yue Qi , Yinghe Chen , Xiao Yu , Xiujie Yang , Xinyi He , Xiaoyu Ma","doi":"10.1016/j.cogdev.2024.101437","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2024.101437","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The current study examined the mediating role of analogical reasoning in the relationships among working memory, inhibitory control, and children’s mathematical skills. Two hundred fifty-one students from first to third grades were tested on visual-spatial working memory, verbal working memory, inhibitory control, analogical reasoning, and different mathematical skills (i.e., symbolic number processing and mathematical reasoning). After controlling for age and gender, analogical reasoning significantly contributed to both symbolic number processing and mathematical reasoning. The relationship between verbal working memory and symbolic number processing, as well as the relationship between verbal working memory and mathematical reasoning, were significantly mediated by analogical reasoning. The exploratory analyses further revealed that there was no significant age difference in the roles of analogical reasoning. These results highlight the important role of analogical reasoning in explaining the relationships among working memory, inhibitory control, and children’s different mathematical abilities. The findings also indicate that analogical reasoning, the ability of identifying and processing critical relational information, may be a potential avenue to improve children’s mathematical skills.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51422,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Development","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 101437"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140000100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}