Developmental Psychology: Recent submissions
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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, 2023-03-21)Children learn new words through a variety of methods, consciously and unconsciously making connections between novel words and new objects to expand their vocabulary. One such method may be making predictions about the ...
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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 ...
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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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(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, 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. ...
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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, 2021-04-07)There is limited research on how parents respond to their children’s emotions, both positive and negative, and how the type of emotion and internal processes of the parent are linked to their responses. The current study ...
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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, 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, 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, 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, 2019-04-24)Representational media are everywhere in children’s daily lives: the photos on the wall, the videos shown on TV, and the picture books children read. In order to foster better learning and develop more age-appropriate ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2015-04)Children frequently learn about absent objects from verbal descriptions in everyday life. 3- and 4-year-olds were read verbal descriptions of novel creatures with novel labels and were then asked to choose the described ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2019-03-15)Young children are influenced by both relevant and irrelevant traits when they infer people’s knowledge and decide whether those people are to be trusted. The current study examines age-related differences in children’s ...
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Children’s Judgments of Moral and Conventional Violations Committed by Individuals with Disabilities (Vanderbilt University, 2019-03-14)Young children are sensitive to actions that violate moral or conventional norms, and often conceptualize people who commit such violations as unkind and deserving of punishment. However, there are many circumstances in ...
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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, ...