Patient education with children: How to consider their individual illness and treatment conceptsAbstract. In patient education with chronic ill children the individual concepts of the participants should be included in order to supply information ...
On efficiency of early interventionAbstract. The article reviews publications on the efficacy of early intervention between 1995 and 2002. Due to methodological hazards such as defining clinical samples, control groups, and outcome criteria, findings of ...
Competence profile and competence level in deductive reasoning in the SDV - integration of Piaget’s developmental theory and item response modelsAbstract. The paper describes the theoretical background, development, and preliminary results of the “...
KOPKI 4-6: Presentation and first validation of a parent questionnaire on cognitive processing in children aged 4 to 6 yearsAbstract. The questionnaire KOPKI 4-6 assesses cognitive processes in children aged 4 to 6 by parent ratings of the cognitive ...
Early diagnosisAbstract. This special issue presents papers on the current discussion about approaches of early diagnosis of motor, cognitive, and socio-emotional development. The focus is on the assessment of developmental risks during the first three ...
Imitation by infants during the first 2 years of lifeAbstract. Imitation is an important cognitive and social cognitive ability in early childhood. In the last two decades infancy research has focused mainly on the study of deferred imitation as a ...
Microgenetic studies on the acquisition of physical knowledge in children: New training experiments with the balance scaleAbstract. In two microgenetic studies, we investigated whether intuitive prior knowledge constrains the learning of new physical ...
Developmental changes of general cognitive abilities and school related skills in children and adolescents: Evidence of a widening gap?Abstract. The present paper deals with a re-analysis of data of the Munich Longitudinal Study (LOGIC; Weinert & ...
Zusammenfassung. Der Rückschaufehler (engl. “hindsight bias“) beschreibt die Tendenz, sich bei Schätzaufgaben durch vorgegebene Informationen systematisch beeinflussen zu lassen. Dieses Phänomen ist gut untersucht, allerdings ist seine ...
Working memory in 4- to 5-year-old children: Theoretical issues and empirical findingsAbstract. In the present study, the precise and reliable assessment of young children’s working memory capacities is investigated. A battery of eight working memory ...
Zusammenfassung. Empirische Untersuchungsbefunde aus zwei Studien zur Entwicklung der Konzentrationsleistung bei 3- bis 8-Jährigen und zum Zusammenhang der Konzentrationsleistung mit den Phasen des vor-operatorischen versus konkret-operatorischen Denkens ...
Verbal and cognitive competencies of young preschool-children: A comparison between children with and without background of migrationAbstract. The current study focusses on verbal and cognitive competencies of children with background of migration at ...
Zusammenfassung. In einem Reaktionszeitexperiment zur mentalen Rotation von Händen, an dem 138 Kindergartenkinder, 82 Grundschüler (2. Klassenstufe) und 82 Erwachsene teilnahmen, konnte ein Einfluss der motorischen Einschränkung von Handbewegungen auf die ...Integration of imagery and motor processes in development: Mental transformation with pictures of handsAbstract. In a mental rotation experiment, 138 kindergarden children, 82 pupils (second grade), and 82 adults were tested using pictures of hands as ...
Abstract. We examined the hypothesis that infants’ early action segmentation is guided by knowledge about simple movement-effect associations. Nine- and 12-month-olds were familiarized with a video showing a sequence of two actions, each a simple ...
Zusammenfassung. Ausgehend von neueren Forschungsergebnissen, die auf Basiskompetenzen wissenschaftlichen Denkens schon im Grundschulalter hinweisen, stellen wir ein dreistufiges Entwicklungsmodell (natur)wissenschaftlicher Kompetenz vor, das einen ...
Previous research on the development of intuitive statics has revealed that preschoolers’ ability to judge the stability of asymmetrically shaped objects is severely limited (Krist, 2010). To overrule the objection that this limitation is caused by ...
Short- and long-term effects of day care during early childhood on cognitive and language development with special reference to day care qualityThis paper provides an overview of the current state of research on the short- and long-term effects of early ...
Development of manual dexterity, executive functions, and scholastic achievement in children at risk for developmental coordination disordersThe present 3-year-longitudinal study investigated manual dexterity, executive functions, and scholastic ...
Das Ziel der längsschnittlich angelegten Studie besteht darin, frühe Einflussfaktoren auf die numerische Entwicklung im Alter von sechs Jahren ausfindig zu machen. Hierzu werden kognitive Faktoren (Intelligenz, Arbeitsgedächtnis, Abruf von Informationen ...
Abstract. Recent studies have ascertained a link between the motor system and imagery in children. A motor effect on imagery is demonstrated by the influence of stimuli-related movement constraints (i. e., constraints defined by the musculoskeletal system)...