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Direct linkLahat, Ayelet; Helwig, Charles C.; Zelazo, Philip David – Cognitive Development, 2012
Moral and conventional violations are usually judged differently: Only moral violations are treated as independent of social rules. To investigate the cognitive processing involved in the development of this distinction, undergraduates (N = 34), adolescents (N = 34), and children (N = 14) read scenarios presented on a computer that had 1 of 3…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Undergraduate Students
Frazier, Brandy N.; Gelman, Susan A. – Cognitive Development, 2009
This study examined the development of an understanding of authenticity among 112 children (preschoolers, kindergarten, 1st graders, and 4th graders) and 119 college students. Participants were presented with pairs of photographs depicting authentic and non-authentic objects and asked to pick which one belongs in a museum and which one they would…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Museums, Kindergarten, Grade 4
Defeyter, Margaret Anne; Russo, Riccardo; McPartlin, Pamela Louise – Cognitive Development, 2009
Items studied as pictures are better remembered than items studied as words even when test items are presented as words. The present study examined the development of this picture superiority effect in recognition memory. Four groups ranging in age from 7 to 20 years participated. They studied words and pictures, with test stimuli always presented…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Test Items, Reaction Time, Familiarity
Amsel, Eric; Klaczynski, Paul A.; Johnston, Adam; Bench, Shane; Close, Jason; Sadler, Eric; Walker, Rick – Cognitive Development, 2008
Metacognitive knowledge of the dual-processing basis of judgment is critical to resolving conflict between analytic and experiential processing responses [Klaczynski, P. A. (2004). A dual-process model of adolescent development: Implications for decision making, reasoning, and identity. In R. V. Kail (Ed.), "Advances in child development and…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, College Students, Conflict, Metacognition
Horn, Stacey S. – Cognitive Development, 2006
Reports on the school climate for gay and lesbian students in the United States suggest that negative attitudes toward gay and lesbian individuals are quite common in adolescence. Very little research, however, has investigated adolescents' sexual prejudice from a developmental perspective. In this study, 10th- (N = 119) and 12th- (N = 145) grade…
Descriptors: Sexual Orientation, Adolescents, Young Adults, Beliefs
Amsel, Eric; Trionfi, Gabriel; Campbell, Richard – Cognitive Development, 2005
The present study explores how suppositions which conflict with accepted beliefs are represented and reasoned about. Two studies test the predictions regarding the nature and developmental changes in children's ability to represent and reason about hypothetical or make-believe suppositions which violate their everyday knowledge and beliefs. In…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Play, Thinking Skills, Beliefs
