Browsing Developmental Psychology by Title
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(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04)Monolingual children resist learning second labels for familiar objects (e.g., a boat can be called a skiff), because they adhere to mutual exclusivity, the principle that an object has one name. It is less clear whether ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04-29)The present study investigates if 4-year-old children use people’s pragmatic competence as a standard for learning from them. In this study we define a person’s pragmatic competence by their ability to adhere to the Gricean ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2019-04)Previous research has shown that the “sticky mittens” reaching intervention has a positive effect on reaching and object exploration skills. Further, early reaching and object exploration abilities have been shown to have ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04)Many different factors play a role in the development of an infant’s ability to use tools. A previous version of the current study examined active versus observational learning on an infant’s ability to be trained to use ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2023)The increasing use of new digital media, such as digital applications (apps), presents new opportunities for parent-child co-play. Active parent engagement during co-play can promote parent-child emotion talk, which benefits ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2023-03)During infancy, consistent exposure to frequent, responsive speech is fundamental for optimal language development to occur, but there is a great amount of variability in the language that infants hear across the first ...
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Familial Socioeconomic Status and the Language Environment: Measurement Consistency and Specificity (Vanderbilt University, 2021-03-29)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2007-04)Children's understanding of death is likely to mediate how effectively they cope with the experience of the death of loved ones, or in the case of severely ill children, their own impending deaths. In order to develop the ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2017-03)Persons who are blind participate in a wide number of sports, ranging from the various competitions in track and field, to goal ball and baseball. How is it, we asked, that persons know how to throw a ball? Learning ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2017-05-01)The proposed research focuses on extrinsic factors and aims to investigate how parenting practices, postural positions, and infants’ varied prior experiences in sitting, supine, and reclining postures influence 3-month-old ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2023-04)Infant exploratory behavior is critical for stimulating proper development and has implications on numerous developmental domains. The sticky mittens paradigm has been shown to enhance object exploration skills in infants, ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2017-04-26)How do toddlers’ executive function skills relate to abilities to use familiar tools in unfamiliar ways? What method might encourage infants to employ executive function skills to override their prepotent, or automatic, ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2016-04-15)Infants must learn how to use many tools in order to engage in a variety of daily tasks. An unpublished pilot study in our lab suggests that 6.5 to 8.5-month-old infants fixated more on the handle of a familiar tool than ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-07)In this study, we were interested in what 9-month-olds understood about the physical properties of an object after seeing an intentional gesture made toward the object. Specifically, we asked whether infants could make ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2012)The purpose of this study is to determine whether there is a relationship between IEP goals and prior reading instruction for children with Down Syndrome, and whether both of those variables had an impact on the children’s ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2017)This study assessed implicit and explicit attitudes toward people who stutter. Twenty-four typically-fluent college-aged participants completed an Implicit Association Test, a measure of implicit attitudes, to assess the ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04-12)This study assessed whether 4-year-old children think a puppet has a mind separate from that of the puppeteer. 64 children, 48-60 months, watched a puppet (operated by a visible person) and another person label 3 familiar ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2013-04-08)In a study of infant tool use, Barrett, Davis, and Needham (2007) found that previous experience with spoons prevented infants from utilizing an unusual grasp of a teaspoon to complete a novel task. Infants were, however, ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2022)When preschoolers encounter a new word and word meaning, they can quickly link the two items to learn a new word. When not provided with the necessary items to learn a word, preschoolers will drive their own word learning. ...