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April 22: Topical Approach: Scientific Reasoning

Gopnik, Sobel, Schulz, & Glymour (2001) Causal learning mechanisms in very young children. (Katie Stokes-Guinan)
Sodian, Beate, Zaitchik, Deborah, and Carey, Susan (1991). Young Children’s Differentiation of Hypothetical Beliefs from Evidence. Child Development: 62, 753-766 (Judy Hicks)

Minda, Desroaches & Church, Learning Rule-Described and Non-Rule-Described Categories: A Comparison of Children and Adults (Tim Reilly)

Penner & Klahr, Child Development, 1996 (Cathy Chase)

April 27: Topical Approach: Mathematical Thinking

Halberda, J., Mazzocco, M. M. M., & Feigenson, L. (2008). Individual differences in non-verbal number acuity correlate with maths achievement. Nature, 455, 665-668. (Jessica Tsang)

De Bock, D., Van Dooren, W., Janssens, D., Verschaffel, L. (2002). Improper use of linear reasoning: An in-depth study of the nature and the irresistibility of secondary school students’ errors. Educational Studies in Mathematics, 50, 311-334. (Tara Chiatovich)

April 29: Topical Approach: Literacy and Bilingualism

May 4: Infancy: the physical world and categorization.

Hespos, S. J., & Baillargeon, R. (2008). Young infants’ actions reveal their developing knowledge of support variables: Converging evidence for violation-of-expectation findings. Cognition, 107, 304-316. (Tara Chaitovich)

.Wilcox & Chapa (rev. 2002). Priming infants to attend to color and pattern information in an individuation task. (Shannon Davidson)

Quinn, P. C., Slater, A. M., Brown., E., & Hayes, R. A. (2001). Developmental change in form categorization in early infancy. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 19, 207–218 (Diana Lee)

May 6: Early Language and Memory development.

Example of Motherese: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR3y4TNGIjo&feature=related (Diane Lee)

Hoff, E. (2003). The specificity of environmental influence: Socioeconomic status affects early vocabulary development via maternal speech. (Katie Stokes-Guinan)

Sokol, R. I., Webster, K. L., Thompson, N. S. & Stevens, D. A. (2005). Whining as mother-directed speech. Infant and Child and Development 14(5), 478–90 (Diane Lee)

Goodwyn, Susan, Linda Acredolo, Catherine Brown. (2000). Impact of Symbolic Gesturing on Early Language Development. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior 24(2), pp. 81-103 (Judy Hicks).

Fivush, R. (1984). Learning about school: The development of kindergarteners’ school scripts. Child Development, 55 (Eun-Mee Jeong).

May 11: Emotions, self and agency.

Xiaoqiu Xu

Gergely,G. et al. (2002) Rational imitation in preverbal infants. Nature 415, 755 Meltzoff, A. N. (1988) Infant Imitation After a 1-Week Delay: Long-Term Memory for Novel Acts and Multiple Stimuli. Dev. Psychol. 24, 470–476 (Sarah Parikh)

The Neural Correlates of Infant and Adult Goal Prediction: Evidence for Semantic Processing Systems
Reid, V.M., Hoehl, S, Grigutsch, M., Groehndahl, A., Parise, E., Striano, T.(Tim Reilly)

Csibra, Gergeky, Biro, Koos, Brockbank (1998). Goal attribution without agency cues: the perception of `pure reason' in infancy. (Shannon Davidson)

May 13: Animate-inanimate distinction in early development.

Animate-Inanimate Distinction and Key Questions

Gelman, S., & Coley, J. D. (1990). The importance of knowing a dodo is a bird: Categories and inferences in 2-year-old children. Developmental Psychology, 26, 796–804 (Sarah Parikh)

Poulin-Dubois, D., Lepage, A. and Ferland, D., 1996. Infants’ concept of animacy. Cognitive Development 11, pp. 19–36 (Diane Lee).

Brandone, A. C., Gelman, S. A. (2009). Differences in preschoolers’ and adults’ use of generics about novel animals and artifacts: A window onto a conceptual divide. Cognition, 110, 1-22 (Tara Chatovich).

May 18: Theory of mind.

M. Taylor and S. Carlson. (1997). The Relation between Individual Differences in Fantasy and Theory of Mind (Shannon Davidson)

Amsterlaw, J., Lagattuta, K.J., & Meltzoff, A.N. (2009). Young children’s reasoning about the effects of emotional and physiological states on academic performance. Child Development, 80(1), 115 – 133 (Brandy Quinn)

C. Hughes, Dunn, J. (1998) Understanding Mind and Emotions: Longitudinal Associations with Mental-State Talk Between Young Friends (Tim Reilly)

May 20: Symbolism and memory.

Task Dependency and the Role of Category Typicality and Metamemory in the Development of an Organizational Strategy. Marcus Hasselhorn (Xiaoqiu Xu)

Hasselhorn, M. (1992). Task Dependency and the Role of Category Typicality and Metamemory in the Development of an Organizational Strategy. Child Development, 63 (Eun Mee Jeong).

Wang, Q. (2007). Being American, being Asian: The bicultural self and autobiographical memory in Asian Americans. Cognition, 107, 743 – 751. (Brandy Quinn)

May 27: Reasoning

Hayes, B. and Thompson, S. (2007). Causal relations and feature similarity in children’s inductive reasoning. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 136 (3), 470 – 484. (Brandy Quinn)

Holyoak, K.J., Junn, E.N., & Billman, D.O. (1984). Development of Analogical Problem-Solving Skill. Child Development, 55(6), 2042-2055 (Jessica Tsang).

Higher-order Structure and Relational Reasoning: Contrasting Analogical and Thematic Relations. Goswami, U. & Borwn, A. L.; Cognition, v36 n3, p207-226, 1990. (Xiaoqiu Xu)

Klaczynski, P.A. (2001) Analytic and Heuristic Processing Influences on Adolescent Reasoning and Decision-Making. Child Development (Tim Reilly)

June 1: Spatial development.

Kosslyn, S.M., Pick, H.L., Fariello, G.R. Cognitive Maps in Children and Men. Child Development, 1974, 45. (Eun Mee Jeong)

Liben, Lyn S., Marta L. Moore and Susan L. Golbeck . (1982). Preschoolers' Knowledge of Their Classroom Environment: Evidence from Small-Scale and Life-Size Spatial Tasks . Child Development, 53(5). (Judy Rg Hicks)

The Importance of Gesture in Children’s Spatial Reasoning. Ehrlich, S. B.; Levine, S. C., and Goldin-Meadow, S. Developmental Psychology, 2006, Vol. 42, No. 6, 1259–1268. -- (Xiaoqiu Xu)

June 6: Return to Scientific Thinking

Tullos, A. and Wooley, J.D. (2009). The development of children’s ability to use evidence to infer reality status. Child Development, 80 (1), 101 – 114 (Brandy Quinn)