Pub Date : 2023-05-03DOI: 10.1080/15248372.2023.2207654
M. Rhodes
Learning to communicate in one’s native language(s) is one of the most impressive accomplishments of the first few years of life. Developmental scientists have extensively detailed and debated how children accomplish this feat, recognizing that language acquisition is both an amazing developmental achievement (on its own) and foundational to the rest of the cognitive development – including to conceptual development, knowledge acquisition, memory, and education. Yet, despite all the attention the field has paid to language acquisition and its role in development, Katherine Kinzler’s comprehensive and beautifully written book, How You Say It, argues that we have largely overlooked one critical consequence – that learning one’s native language provides a fundamental sense of identity and lens for making sense of the social world. Kinzler builds this argument drawing from her own empirical work in developmental science and research from other subfields of psychology, as well as from an interdisciplinary perspective informed by sociology, linguistics, history, evolutionary biology, education, and law. Kinzler describes compelling evidence that children’s social responses are shaped by whether a potential social partner speaks like they do (in terms of language and accent). By five months, babies prefer to look at people who speak their native language or with a native accent (Kinzler, Dupoux, & Spelke, 2007). By 10-months, they prefer to take a toy from someone they previously saw speak in their native language (Kinzler, Dupoux, & Spelke, 2007), and expect people who speak the same language to affiliate with one another and have other things (e.g., food preferences) in common, but people who speak different languages to disengage from one another and have other differences (Liberman, Sullivan, Woodward, & Kinzler, 2016). By early childhood, these biases are explicit – children prefer to learn (even non-linguistic information) from people who speak their native language with their native accent (Kinzler, Corriveau, & Harris, 2011), explicitly say they would rather be friends with someone who speaks with their native accent (Kinzler, Shutts, DeJesus, & Spelke, 2009), and begin to endorse language-based stereotypes (e.g., about who is nicer or smarter; Kinzler & DeJesus, 2013). Kinzler argues that these finding stem from a basic tendency for people (including young children) to notice who speaks like them and treat this as a marker of who is in or out of their group. From this perspective, children’s differential treatment and responses to people who speak differently from them are not only about ease of communication; instead, sharing a native language fundamentally marks whether we see someone as like us or not. A range of controls supports the conclusion that the social effects of language are not reducible to ease of communication alone: children’s biases appear just as strong based on accent (when they can still understand the content of what someo
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Pub Date : 2023-04-10DOI: 10.1080/15248372.2023.2176856
Melis Muradoglu, Joseph R. Cimpian, Andrei Cimpian
ABSTRACT Mixed-effects models are an analytic technique for modeling repeated measurement or nested data. This paper explains the logic of mixed-effects modeling and describes two examples of mixed-effects analyses using R. The intended audience of the paper is psychologists who specialize in cognitive development research. Therefore, the concepts and examples covered will focus primarily on repeated-measurement data resulting from studies in which participants respond to multiple items or trials. However, many of the concepts and examples we cover will likely be of use to readers outside this area of psychology. Finally, we discuss recommendations for dealing with practical challenges, suggest approaches for troubleshooting, and provide guidance on reporting results from mixed-effects models.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-04DOI: 10.1080/15248372.2023.2197067
S. Geffen, S. Curtin, S. Graham
ABSTRACT By 12 months, English-learning infants have an awareness of the sound patterns of word forms that constitute acceptable labels for objects in their native language. In the following experiments, we replicated and extended previous findings that Canadian English-learning infants will not link function-like words with novel objects. Across three experiments using the Switch task, 101 infants living in Calgary, Canada, were habituated to two CV and VC word-object pairings. At test, infants did not look longer on the Switch trial and the Same trial, suggesting they did not form word-object associations between prototypical function words and a novel object in any of the experiments (ps>0.5). This set of null results extends prior research showing that Canadian English-learning infants will not link function-like words with novel objects and suggests that infants’ prior experience with their native language may constrain their learning of novel labels.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-30DOI: 10.1080/15248372.2023.2192276
Madeline Garnett, E. Reese, Isabelle Swearingen, E. Peterson, K. Salmon, K. Waldie, Stephanie D’Souza, P. Atatoa-Carr, S. Morton, Amy L. Bird
ABSTRACT The aim of the present study was to explore how maternal reminiscing relates to socioemotional development during middle childhood. Specifically, analyses explored the link between maternal reminiscing and children’s internalizing (emotional problems and peer problems), externalizing (hyperactivity and conduct problems) and prosocial behavior within a large and diverse sample of New Zealand families, after controlling for a range of child and maternal sociodemographic factors. A subset of 1404 mother-child dyads (663 boys) were selected from the longitudinal study Growing Up in New Zealand’s 8-year data collection wave. Mother-child reminiscing conversations about a past negative emotional event were coded using a scale-based measure of maternal elaboration. After controlling for child and maternal sociodemographic characteristics, regression analyses identified unique associations between maternal reminiscing style and children’s concurrent scores on the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire. Overall, greater maternal elaboration was associated with fewer child emotional problems and greater child prosocial behavior. This study presents novel data exploring the importance of mother-child reminiscing interactions at a critical and sensitive time in child development. Future research should explore bidirectional influences across time between mothers’ elaborative reminiscing and children’s socioemotional development.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.1080/15248372.2023.2187636
Claire Hughes
ABSTRACT Research on children’s executive functions (EF) has continued apace for a long time. The papers in this special issue offer the reader a welcome opportunity to pause and reflect on whether existing conceptualizations of EF require a paradigm shift. This debate is informed by thoughtful discussion of the difficulties in assessing EF in different societal contexts, by innovative approaches to enriching the assessment of EF, and novel accounts of what underpins developmental change in EF, as well as how EF relates to other aspects of children’s cognitive development. My commentary is organized by the dimensions of place and time and concludes with insights gleaned from the special issue regarding ways of supporting children’s growing EF.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.1080/15248372.2023.2188946
Sabine Doebel, Ulrich Müller,
ABSTRACT Over the last several decades, research on executive function in children has flourished, producing a wealth of empirical findings. These findings have raised many theoretical and methodological questions that warrant attention and are addressed in this special issue. This introduction to the special issue reviews some of the recent history of the field before introducing the seven target articles. We introduce these articles in the context of current theoretical and methodological issues: domain generality versus domain specificity of executive function, ecological and cultural validity of executive function measures, executive function training and transfer, and the nature of relations between executive function and achievement and other outcomes. This diverse set of articles collectively provides many fresh, testable ideas that promise to advance the field and usher in the next wave of theory-guided executive function research.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-09DOI: 10.1080/15248372.2023.2178435
Anna Baumann, Elizabeth J. Goldman, Alexandra Meltzer, D. Poulin-Dubois
ABSTRACT In this paper, we investigated whether Canadian preschoolers prefer to learn from a competent robot over an incompetent human using the classic trust paradigm. An adapted Naive Biology task was also administered to assess children’s perception of robots. In Study 1, 3-year-olds and 5-year-olds were presented with two informants; A social, humanoid robot (Nao) who labeled familiar objects correctly, while a human informant labeled them incorrectly. Both informants then labeled unfamiliar objects with novel labels. It was found that 3-year-old children equally endorsed the labels provided by the robot and the human, but 5-year-old children learned significantly more from the competent robot. Interestingly, 5-year-olds endorsed Nao’s labels even though they accurately categorized the robot as having mechanical insides. In contrast, 3-year-old children associated Nao with biological or mechanical insides equally. In Study 2, new samples of 3-year-olds and 5-year-olds were tested to determine whether the human-like appearance of the robot informant impacted children’s trust judgments. The procedure was identical to that of Study 1, except that a non-humanoid robot, Cozmo, replaced Nao. It was found that 3-year-old children still trusted the robot and the human equally and that 5-year-olds preferred to learn new labels from the robot, suggesting that the robot’s morphology does not play a key role in their selective trust strategies. It is concluded that by 5 years of age, preschoolers show a robust sensitivity to epistemic characteristics (e.g., competency), but that younger children’s decisions are equally driven by the animacy of the informant.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-07DOI: 10.1080/15248372.2023.2186692
Eleonora Doz, Alessandro Cuder, S. Pellizzoni, B. Carretti, M. Passolunghi
ABSTRACT A crucial component of mathematics curriculum in primary education is represented by the ability to solve arithmetic word problems. Previous studies investigated predominantly the cognitive factors underlying this skill, neglecting the role of emotional (e.g. math anxiety – MA) and metacognitive aspects (e.g. perceived difficulty). Some findings suggested that emotional factors could influence perceived task difficulty which would, in turn, impair students’ performance. However, the relation between MA, perceived difficulty, and math problem-solving has not been explored yet. Moreover, although many studies reported gender differences in MA levels, findings involving primary school children are contrasting. Thus, this study aimed to evaluate the role of MA and perceived task difficulty on arithmetic word problem-solving proficiency in a sample of Italian primary school students, and to investigate gender differences in those variables. Results showed that MA had a direct and indirect effect through perceived difficulty on problem-solving performance. Furthermore, findings confirmed that girls exhibited higher MA levels, however no gender difference was observed in problem-solving accuracy nor in perceived difficulty. The study underlines the need to consider emotional factors when investigating children’s difficulties in math problem-solving and highlight the importance of MA interventions, especially for girls, already in primary education.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-02DOI: 10.1080/15248372.2023.2178437
Paul Ibbotson, Ernesto Roque-Gutierrez
ABSTRACT Small but robust differences in cognition exist between the sexes in adult populations. Studying sex differences in children’s cognition can bring insight into when, where and how these differences might emerge in development. Here, we focus on differences in working memory because of its importance in underpinning a wide range of complex cognitive tasks and developmental outcomes for children. Using two levels of difficulty on a standard test of working memory (N-Back), data from 104 6- to 7-year-olds in Cuba showed that boys have quicker reaction times, but girls provide more accurate responses. With a comparable true positive rate between boys and girls, the sex differences in both accuracy and reaction times were limited to false-positive responses. Sex differences were consistent across levels of task difficulty and persisted after speed-accuracy trade-offs were considered. We argue that avoiding false positives requires a particularly strong role for inhibitory control and that this emerges in development according to a different maturational schedule for girls than it does for boys, underpinned by quantitative and qualitative differences in the development of brain areas that support this function.
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