Heterogeneous development of children of postnatally depressed mothersAbstract.Background: Biological-genetic mechanisms as well as social-interactional pathways of transmission are discussed as determinants of developmental disorders among children at ...
Security of attachment and the development of speech and cognitionAbstract. This study focuses on the analysis of relationships between infants' attachment and the development of speech and cognition. It is expected that a secure attachment will be ...
Zusammenfassung. Es wurde geprüft, ob sich frühgeborene und termingeborene Kinder im Vorschulalter in ihrer kognitiven Entwicklung und ihren sozial-emotionalen Kompetenzen unterscheiden. Insgesamt wurden 29 Kinder im Alter zwischen fünf und sechs Jahren ...
Long-Term Consequences of Preterm Birth on Cognitive Development and Academic Achievement: Is There a Protective Effect of Maternal Responsiveness?Abstract. Preterm birth is associated with adverse long-term ...
The Significance of Fetal and Neonatal Spontaneous Movements for Development and Early Identification of Developmental DisordersAbstract.Theoretical Background: The human neonate presents a continuum of motor patterns extending ...
Children’s conceptions about illness: A research reviewAbstract. This review reports the state of research on the development of children’s and adolescent’s illness representations. The review begins with an overview about theoretical approaches used as ...
Commercials on TV: Experimental methods for assessing children’s comprehension of commercialsAbstract. The development of children’s ability to differentiate between commercials and other television programs was examined in two experiments. In particular,...
The development of knowledge about agents has recently been subject to intensive study, as witnessed by the burgeoning literature on children's theory of mind. This article focuses on two central issues in the literature: the early emergence and the ...
A new test on map understanding for preschool and elementary-school children was constructed based on a Piagetian framework of the development of spatial ability and representational understanding. Results from a study with 95 3- to 6-year-old children ...
Changing environmental context during encoding can influence episodic memory. This study examined the memorial consequences of environmental context change in children. Kindergartners, first and fourth graders, and young adults studied two lists of items, ...
This study investigated the influence of egocentric and allocentric viewpoints on a comparison task of length estimation in children and adults. A total of 100 participants ranging in age from 5 years to adulthood were presented with virtual scenes ...