Browsing Developmental Psychology by Title
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(Vanderbilt University, 2013-04-09)Infants received a prehension enrichment experience (active training), which allowed pre-reaching infants to gain experience with prehension before they would normally begin such behaviors. During the prehension enrichment ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04-06)The present study investigates 4-year-old children’s ability to use speakers’ pragmatic competence as an indicator of whom to learn from. In this study, pragmatic competence is measured as the speaker’s ability to adhere ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2017-04-17)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2018-04)Both math anxiety and stereotype threat processes have been suggested as causes of gender-related discrepancies in math performance, and the two processes may use similar mechanisms (Ramirez, Gunderson, Levine, & Beilock, ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2020-04-21)Executive functioning (EF) is a key element of school readiness. Despite evidence for the influential role parents can play in supporting child EF development, current EF-directed interventions rarely focus on parents. And ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2007-04)A preliminary study conducted by Rieser et al. (2005) found a discrepancy in the technique three to five year old children use when throwing a tangible ball vs. pretending to throw an imaginary ball at targets varying in ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2023-03)The valence of parental descriptions of their child’s personality may be an indicator of child difficulties as well as the nature of caregiving behavior within that parent–child relationship. The present project examined ...