Browsing by Subject "Psychology, Developmental"
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A Collaborative Approach to Infant Research: Promoting Reproducibility, Best Practices, and Theory-Building.
(Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant Studies, 2017-07)The ideal of scientific progress is that we accumulate measurements and integrate these into theory, but recent discussion of replicability issues has cast doubt on whether psychological research conforms to this model. ... -
Aging and distraction by highly familiar stimuli during visual search
(Developmental Psychology, 1983-07-01)P. Rabbitt's (1965, 1968) theory regarding age-related changes in cognition proposes that aging is accompanied by a decreased ability to ignore irrelevant information (perceptual noise). The present experiment examined age ... -
Aging and the development of automaticity in visual search
(Developmental Psychology, 1980-09-01)The rate of short-term memory search has previously been reported to be slower for older individuals than for college-age Ss (F. I. Craik, 1977). Current research has suggested that after extensive practice with the same ... -
Correlates of Parent-Child Physiological Synchrony and Emotional Parenting: Differential Associations in Varying Interactive Contexts
(Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2019-04-01)© 2019, The Author(s). Objectives: Parent-child synchrony during interaction might possess important features that underlie parenting processes throughout development. However, little is known regarding the association between ... -
Explaining Discrepant Findings for Performance-approach Goals: the Role of Emotion Regulation During Test-taking
(2008-04-25)The study of achievement goals has begun to examine the underlying mechanisms that link goal orientations in order to develop a more accurate model that explains achievement outcomes. Currently, performance-approach goal ... -
Implicit, Eclipsed, but Functional: the Development of Orthographic Knowledge in Early Readers
(2009)Although most models of reading development present orthographic knowledge as a more advanced and later developing form of knowledge than phonological knowledge, this dissertation presents a model of the development ... -
Interpretations and Beliefs Associated with Children's Revenge Goals in Conflict Situations
(2008-04-24)Prior research has found that children who pursue revenge goals in minor conflicts with peers are less accepted, have fewer friends, and have friendships of lower quality. Very little research has been devoted to understanding ... -
Molecules to Mind: the Construction of Emotion
(2009)In recent years, there has been increasing scientific interest in the biological basis of emotion. By characterizing the neural and genetic basis of affective functioning, new research has the potential to contribute to ... -
Object-Directed Action Experiences and their Effect on Cognitive and Social Development
(2010)Reaching is an important and early emerging motor skill that allows infants to interact with the physical and social world (e.g., when sharing objects). Despite the importance of motor experiences in early infancy, few studies ... -
Pioneer Paper: Pioneers in Pediatric Psychology: The Enduring Value of Learning to "Think Like a Psychologist".
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Point, walk, talk: Links between three early milestones, from observation and parental report.
(Developmental psychology, 2019-08)Around their first birthdays, infants begin to point, walk, and talk. These abilities are appreciable both by researchers with strictly standardized criteria and caregivers with more relaxed notions of what each of these ... -
Predicting Leader Effectiveness: Personality Traits and Character Strengths
(2007-05-07)Personality traits have been used extensively over the past forty years in assessing leadership potential, with varying degrees of success. A major limitation of this research has been the measures of personality. Another ... -
Racial Identity Development: Academic Correlates of Change among African American Adolescents
(2010)This study examined changes in African American adolescents' racial identity content (e.g., connectedness, awareness of racism, and embedded achievement) and academic adjustment (e.g., Academic and disciplinary adjustment, ... -
The Development of Structure and Centrality in the Self System: Implications for Appearance Concerns
(2008-04-22)Appearance-related self worth occupies a central role in the self-structure of many individuals. While many social psychological theories may be employed to understand the role of appearance in individuals' self-structures, ... -
The Intergenerational Transmission and "Moralization" of Appearance and Achievement Values and Their Influence on Children's Contingencies of Self-Worth
(2008-02-21)Children's internalization of parental values is differentially influenced by discipline and parent-child relationship quality. Beyond simply affecting values, parents can influence the development of underlying belief structures ... -
The Kindergarten Home Visit Project: A Kindergarten Transition Intervention Study
(2010)This study examined the effect of the Kindergarten Home Visit Project, a novel universal intervention program designed to enhance the transition to kindergarten for children and families by providing teachers with the training ... -
The Roles of Parenting and Moral Socialization in Obsessive-Compulsive Belief and Symptom Development
(2009)Despite the prominence of cognitive theories of anxiety disorders, which posit that thoughts can affect the expression of psychopathology, empirical investigation of the origins of such thoughts is scant. In the study of ... -
Unit Analysis of Prose Memory in Clinical and Elderly Populations
(Developmental Neuropsychology, 1986-01-01)Interpretation of clinical memory tests generally emphasizes the quantitative aspects of recall. This study presents an additional unit analysis of the Logical Memory subtest of Russell's revision of the Wechsler Memory ... -
Why Do Young Children Fail in False Belief Tasks: Linguistic Representations and Implicit Processing
(2009)Despite recent evidence that infants under one year of age have implicit understanding of theory of mind, three-year-old children repeatedly fail in traditional false belief tasks. A serious of 4 studies investigated two ...
