This article critically reviews the research literature on peer modeling among children as a function of model attributes. Peer modeling is hypothesized to depend in part on perceived similarity between model and observer. Similarity serves as an important source of information for gauging behavioral appropriateness, formulating outcome expectations, and assessing one's self-efficacy for learni...

Children have concepts of the physical world long before they enter school, and in the course of further development these rudimentary concepts typically change in everyday settings, even without formal instruction. This kind of knowledge is often termed “intuitive physics.” Understanding children's concepts about the physical world is valuable for both practical and theoretical reasons. Practi...

For many of us, not having data concerning a client’s progress during treatment is tantamount to being unprepared for a lecture, or showing up at a birthday party without a present—totally unthinkable. This zealous position is based on the assumption that clinical decisions regarding treatment efficacy should be based on data. Data, in this case, refers to both quantitative and qualitative info...

GENTNER, DEDRE . Children's Performance on a Spatial Analogies Task . CHILD DEVELOPMENT , 1977, 48, 1034-1039 . Young children performed as well as or better than adults on tasks requiring use of spatial analogies . The tasks involved body-parts analogies, such as, "If this [pictured] mountain had a knee, where would it be?" The entities referred to were physical objects familiar to young child...

Title of Document: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHILDREN’S BEHAVIOR QUESTIONNAIRE, TEACHER VERSION (CBQ-T) Laura E. Schussler, Master of Arts, 2012 Directed By: Professor Hedwig Teglasi Information is provided about the development of a teacher version of the Children’s Behavior Questionnaire Short Form (CBQ Short Form; Putnam & Rothbart, 2006). The CBQ Short Form, designed for caregivers, was modifi...

The present study sought to examine whether preschool children’s emotion regulation, problem behaviors, and kindergarten behavioral self-regulation in the classroom were predictors of kindergarten achievement scores. The children (N = 122, 47% male and 63% European American) who were participating in an ongoing longitudinal study, were seen at both a preschool and kindergarten assessment. The p...

This study investigated the effects of mobile phone text-messaging method (predictive and multi-press) and experience (in texters and non-texters) on children’s textism use and understanding. It also examined popular claims that the use of text-message abbreviations, or textese spelling, is associated with poor literacy skills.Asample of 86 children aged 10 to 12 years read and wrote text messa...

Drawing is ancient; it is the only childhood cognitive behavior for which there is any direct evidence from the Upper Paleolithic. Do genes influence individual differences in this species-typical behavior, and is drawing related to intelligence (g) in modern children? We report on the first genetically informative study of children’s figure drawing. In a study of 7,752 pairs of twins, we found...