{"title":"Morally-relevant theory of mind is related to viewing gender inequalities as unacceptable","authors":"Jacquelyn Glidden, Kathryn M. Yee, Melanie Killen","doi":"10.1016/j.cogdev.2024.101450","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2024.101450","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Previous research has shown that morally-relevant theory of mind enables children to avoid blaming a peer for an accidental transgression. The current study investigated whether this form of theory of mind helps children recognize that gender inequalities are unfair and create negative emotional experiences. Further, the study examined this ability across three perspectives (for themselves, for those who have been advantaged by inequality, and for those who have been disadvantaged by inequality). Participants were 141 children (<em>M</em><sub>Age</sub> = 6.67 years, 49% female, 32% ethnic/racial minority) recruited from the mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. Experience with the negative consequences of gender bias and more advanced mental state understanding was associated with more negative evaluations of gender inequalities and more neutral attributions of others’ emotions. These findings shed light on the role of different forms of mental state understanding in children’s evaluations of inequalities based on gender.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51422,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Development","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 101450"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140893481","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":"Modulation of attentional blink with sound in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)","authors":"Huan Zhang , Shizhong Cai , Yan Chen , Aijun Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.cogdev.2024.101452","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2024.101452","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Although it has been found that children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) with impaired ability of inhibition control often showed greater attentional blink (AB), there is minimal information in regards to attention deficit in the interaction of AB enhancement with sound induction. A rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) task was used by presenting an audiology pure tone evaluation simultaneously with T2 to investigate how auditory-driven visual perception enhances AB in children with ADHD. The results showed that children with ADHD had greater AB, and they performed worse than typically developing children (TD) in AB amplitude and recovery time. In addtion, the sound enhanced AB in TD children but interfered in children with ADHD. These results indicate that children with ADHD with faulty attentional allocation have fewer resources available for targets in the cross-modality AB, thus leading to a severe interference effect and a larger AB. It demonstrates that sound can only enhance AB when attentional resources are previously invested and the ability to suppress interference are still sufficient after dividing attention in cross-modality.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51422,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Development","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 101452"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140909957","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}
Rosario Gelpi-Trudo , Santiago Vernucci , Ana Virginia García-Coni , Hernán López-Morales , Lorena Canet-Juric
{"title":"Gender differences in global advantage effect in school-aged children","authors":"Rosario Gelpi-Trudo , Santiago Vernucci , Ana Virginia García-Coni , Hernán López-Morales , Lorena Canet-Juric","doi":"10.1016/j.cogdev.2024.101451","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2024.101451","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study investigated age and gender differences in global-local processing (the perception of parts forming a whole) in middle childhood. While there is a consensus on a global advantage effect regarding priority, speed, and accuracy of processing, its universality is debated. A Navon-type selective attention task with hierarchical stimuli was administered to 199 students aged 9 to 12 years. Repeated measures mixed ANCOVA with reaction times and accuracy scores showed that only boys exhibited a global advantage effect in speed, while girls demonstrated higher accuracy in both global and local conditions. A trade-off effect was suggested by a complementary analysis using Balanced Integration Score. An improvement with age was found regarding speed and overall performance, with no differential effect between hierarchical levels. These results are presented in the hopes of providing information on gender-specific challenges that can be mitigated through future interventions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51422,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Development","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 101451"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140893480","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}
María Inés Susperreguy , Sabrina M. Di Lonardo Burr , Chang Xu , Heather P. Douglas , Taeko Bourque , M. Francisca del Río , Viviana Salinas , Jo-Anne LeFevre
{"title":"The role of mathematical vocabulary in the development of mathematical skills for Spanish-speaking students","authors":"María Inés Susperreguy , Sabrina M. Di Lonardo Burr , Chang Xu , Heather P. Douglas , Taeko Bourque , M. Francisca del Río , Viviana Salinas , Jo-Anne LeFevre","doi":"10.1016/j.cogdev.2024.101441","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2024.101441","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Does mathematical vocabulary predict the change in students’ performance on mathematical tasks from one academic year to the next? Chilean Spanish-speaking students (<em>N</em> = 87) completed measures of mathematical vocabulary, mathematical skills (i.e., arithmetic fluency, calculation, and applied problems), receptive vocabulary, and working memory in Grade 2 (T1, <em>M</em><sub><em>age</em></sub> = 7:11 years:months, <em>SD</em> = 0:5, 46% girls)<em>.</em> One year later (T2) they completed the same mathematical measures. Concurrent relations were found between mathematical vocabulary and the three mathematical skills at both time points. Together, general and mathematical vocabulary at T1 explained significant unique variance in the change in applied problems and calculation from T1 to T2. For calculation however, only mathematical vocabulary predicted significant unique variance in the change from T1 to T2. Change in arithmetic fluency was only predicted by working memory. These results address the roles of general and mathematical vocabulary in students’ mathematical development in elementary school.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51422,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Development","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 101441"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140350040","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}
Alexandra Raport , Canan Ipek, Valentina Gomez, Henrike Moll
{"title":"Two- and three-year-olds prefer mastery-oriented over outcome-oriented help","authors":"Alexandra Raport , Canan Ipek, Valentina Gomez, Henrike Moll","doi":"10.1016/j.cogdev.2024.101462","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2024.101462","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>It has been shown that school-aged children often turn to others for help with the motive to learn and expand on their knowledge or skills (so-called “mastery-oriented” help-seeking, Nelson-Le Gall, 1985). Although help-seeking in problem-solving contexts is increasingly studied in preschoolers, there is so far no experimental evidence that young children show a preference for mastery- as opposed to outcome-driven help. In two online experiments (N = 144, 72 female), 2- and 3-year-olds from diverse ethno-racial backgrounds living in the United States (68 % White; 16 % Latine) watched an agent failing at a task (e.g., pouring water into a cup) before they selected one of two helpers for the agent: one who demonstrated how to perform the task (mastery-oriented helper) or one who completed the task without demonstration (outcome-oriented helper). Children of both ages selected mastery-oriented helpers to assist the struggling agent (Experiments 1 and 2) but chose helpers randomly in a control condition in which the agent succeeded at the task and therefore needed no mastery-oriented help (Experiment 2). The findings indicate that young children recognize that furthering one’s abilities is a core motive of help-seeking.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51422,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Development","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 101462"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141163766","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}
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}