The development of children s prospective memory: Lessons for developmental science
AbstractThe study of children s prospective memory has gained new momentum over the past 20years and is now an active area of research in cognitive development. Yet, this resurgence has been accompanied by significant challenges that offer important lessons and insights for other areas of developmental science. In this arti cle, I provide an overview and theoretical accounts of the development of childrens prospective memory. I then describe three puzzling findings that remain unresolved in childrens development of this kind of memory: (1) the contradictory effects of delay length on prospective memory performanc e, (2...
Source: Child Development Perspectives - December 7, 2021 Category: Child Development Authors: Caitlin E. V. Mahy Tags: Article Source Type: research
When is cultural input central? The development of ontological beliefs about religious and scientific unobservables
AbstractAcross diverse cultural contexts, children and adults believe in the existence of religious and supernatural unobservables (e.g., gods, angels) as well as scientific and natural unobservables (e.g., germs, oxygen). In this article, we explore the role of cultural input and testimony in children ’s developing beliefs in supernatural and natural unobservables as real. We review cross-cultural research with children and adults on their beliefs about the ontological status of religious and scientific unobservables and the epistemic patterns associated with these beliefs. Based on this eviden ce, we argue that cultura...
Source: Child Development Perspectives - November 24, 2021 Category: Child Development Authors: Telli Davoodi,
Jennifer M. Clegg Tags: Article Source Type: research
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Source: Child Development Perspectives - November 10, 2021 Category: Child Development Tags: Issue Information Source Type: research
Parenting and the development of children s gratitude
AbstractFostering gratitude is often among the socialization goals parents hold for their children. In this article, we explore work that portrays gratitude as a complex socioemotional process that occurs during a moment in time and becomes more frequent, integrated, and rich with development. Researchers have identified at least four parent socialization practices that may foster children s gratitude: modeling, daily scaffolding, niche selection, and conversations with children about gratitude moments and missed opportunities for gratitude. Parent training tools based on this work have yielded modest results. More work i...
Source: Child Development Perspectives - November 10, 2021 Category: Child Development Authors: Andrea M. Hussong,
Jennifer L. Coffman,
Amy G. Halberstadt Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
The emergence of children s natural number concepts: Current theoretical challenges
AbstractLearning the meaning of number words is a lengthy and error-prone process. In this review, we highlight outstanding issues related to current accounts of children s acquisition of symbolic number knowledge. We maintain that, despite the ability to identify and label small numerical quantities, children do not understand initially that number words refer only to sets of discrete countable items, not to other nonnumerical dimensions. We question the presence of a sudden change in childrens understanding of cardinality, and we report the limits of the give-a-number task. We also highlight that children are still lea...
Source: Child Development Perspectives - November 10, 2021 Category: Child Development Authors: Francesco Sella,
Emily Slusser,
Darko Odic,
Attila Krajcsi Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Social relationships and children s perceptions of adversity
AbstractHaving sensitive, contingent, and supportive social relationships has been linked to more positive outcomes after experiences of early childhood adversity. Traditionally, social relationships are construed as moderators that buffer children from the effects of exposure to adverse events. However, recent data support an alternative view: that supportive social relationships influence children s later outcomes by shaping their perceptions of safety and stress, regardless of the particular events to which children are exposed. This perspective has implications for understanding vulnerability and resilience in childre...
Source: Child Development Perspectives - November 10, 2021 Category: Child Development Authors: Karen E. Smith,
Seth D. Pollak Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
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Source: Child Development Perspectives - November 10, 2021 Category: Child Development Tags: Issue Information Source Type: research
Child development in an ideological context: Through the lens of resistance and accommodation
AbstractEvery aspect of child development —from cognition to relationships—is shaped by macrolevel ideologies (e.g., white supremacy, patriarchy) that reflect the social hierarchies and embedded power structures of society. While ecological theories have long underscored the impact of macrosystems and cultures on humans, the field of ch ild development has tended to overemphasize microsystems and often overlooks how ideologies of power shape developmental processes. In this article, we situate child development within and in response to the ideological context, which directs the field’s attention away from “fixing...
Source: Child Development Perspectives - November 10, 2021 Category: Child Development Authors: Leoandra Onnie Rogers,
Niobe Way Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
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Source: Child Development Perspectives - November 10, 2021 Category: Child Development Tags: Issue Information Source Type: research
Child development in an ideological context: Through the lens of resistance and accommodation
AbstractEvery aspect of child development —from cognition to relationships—is shaped by macrolevel ideologies (e.g., white supremacy, patriarchy) that reflect the social hierarchies and embedded power structures of society. While ecological theories have long underscored the impact of macrosystems and cultures on humans, the field of ch ild development has tended to overemphasize microsystems and often overlooks how ideologies of power shape developmental processes. In this article, we situate child development within and in response to the ideological context, which directs the field’s attention away from “fixing...
Source: Child Development Perspectives - November 10, 2021 Category: Child Development Authors: Leoandra Onnie Rogers,
Niobe Way Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Parenting and the development of children ’s gratitude
AbstractFostering gratitude is often among the socialization goals parents hold for their children. In this article, we explore work that portrays gratitude as a complex socioemotional process that occurs during a moment in time and becomes more frequent, integrated, and rich with development. Researchers have identified at least four parent socialization practices that may foster children ’s gratitude: modeling, daily scaffolding, niche selection, and conversations with children about gratitude moments and missed opportunities for gratitude. Parent training tools based on this work have yielded modest results. More work...
Source: Child Development Perspectives - November 4, 2021 Category: Child Development Authors: Andrea M. Hussong,
Jennifer L. Coffman,
Amy G. Halberstadt Tags: Article Source Type: research
Why youth are more purposeful than we think
AbstractA core attribute of the positive youth development movement has been to nullify negative perceptions of youth ’s capacities. Toward this end, measurement and classification systems benefit from efforts to view youth’s capacities as assets contextualized by developmental potentials and opportunities. In this article, we consider this point with respect to whether youth are purposeful. The prevailing sent iment of some researchers holds that few adolescents have a purpose in life, perhaps reifying negative beliefs about their capacity. We assert an alternative view that focuses onsense of purpose, which relies on...
Source: Child Development Perspectives - November 1, 2021 Category: Child Development Authors: Patrick L. Hill,
Anthony L. Burrow Tags: Article Source Type: research
