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1. Flankers Facilitate 3-Year-Olds' Performance in a Card-Sorting Task (EJ783078)

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Author(s):

Jordan, Patricia L.; Morton, J. Bruce

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Developmental Psychology, v44 n1 p265-274 Jan 2008

Pub Date:

2008-01-00

Pub Type(s):

Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative

Peer-Reviewed:

Yes

Descriptors:
Preschool Children; Task Analysis; Cognitive Development; Age; Thinking Skills; Attention; Conflict; Performance

Abstract:
Three-year-old children often act inflexibly in card-sorting tasks by continuing to sort by an old rule after being asked to switch and sort by a new rule. This inflexibility has been variously attributed to age-related constraints on higher order rule use, object redescription, and attention shifting. In 2 experiments, flankers that were congruent with the new rule significantly facilitated 3-ye Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. Show Full Abstract

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2. Children's Understanding of Emotion in Speech. (EJ639733)

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Author(s):

Morton, J. Bruce; Trehub, Sandra E.

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Child Development, v72 n3 p834-43 May-Jun 2001

Pub Date:

2001-00-00

Pub Type(s):

Journal Articles; Reports - Research

Peer-Reviewed:

N/A

Descriptors:
Adults; Age Differences; Children; Cognitive Development; Comparative Analysis; Emotional Response; Intonation; Language Processing; Paralinguistics; Speech

Abstract:
Explored in three experiments children's understanding of emotion in speech. Found gradual developmental change from 4-year-olds' focus on content to adult's focus on paralanguage. Children exhibited greater response latencies to utterances with conflicting cues than to those with nonconflicting cues. They accurately labeled affective paralanguage when propositional emotion cues were obscured by Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. Show Full Abstract

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