This study aims to determine the process and results as well effectiveness of developing a picture story book based on Discovery Learning. The development model used is ADDIE (2009). product books include: 1) title book; 2) preface; 3) instructions for using content; 4) activity sheet; 6) assessment; 7) bibliography glossary. validation test material experts learning media obtained an average s...

It is well documented that young children greatly overestimate their performance on tests of retrospective memory (RM), but the current investigation is the first to examine children's prediction accuracy for prospective memory (PM). Three studies were conducted, each testing a different group of 5-year-olds. In Study 1 (N=46), participants were asked to predict their success in a simple event-...

It is well documented that young children greatly overestimate their performance on tests of retrospective memory (RM) but the present investigation was the first to examine their prediction accuracy for prospective memory (PM). Three studies were conducted, each testing a different group of 5-year-olds. In Study 1 (n=46), participants were asked to predict their success in a simple event-based...

While there has been a lot of discussion of picture perception both in perceptual psychology and in philosophy, these discussions are driven by very different background assumptions. Nonetheless, it would be mutually beneficial to arrive at an understanding of picture perception that is informed by both the philosophers’ and the psychologists’ story. The aim of this paper is exactly this: to gi...

This paper describes the development of an instrument for collecting story samples and local norms, the Edmonton Narrative Norms Instrument (ENNI), and presents results of one measure of storytelling ability used with the ENNI data, story grammar units (SGU). The purpose of the present study was to examine the measure’s ability to detect developmental changes in story production and discriminat...

About two decades ago, Ruth Berman and I set out to explore the development of “the ability to relate events in narrative” (Berman 1988; Berman & Slobin 1987, 1994). We devoted a great deal of research attention to a seemingly simple task: oral narratives elicited by a picture storybook created for children, Frog, where are you? (Mayer 1969), originally discovered as a research tool by Michael ...