Social and temperamental influences on children's overestimation of their physical abilities: links to accidental injuries

Article Abstract:

Researchers investigated the relationship between social and temperamental factors and childhood accidents. They showed videos of peers failing or succeeding in physical tasks to groups of six- and eight-year-old children. Children who had seen their peers fail were less likely to overestimate their own physical ability for the task. Temperamental characteristics had a greater influence on the speed of judgements in eight-year-old children and were correlated with accidental injuries in eight-year-olds. Accidental injuries were related to ability overestimation in six-year-old boys.

Psychological aspects, Social aspects, Motor ability, Motor skills, Cognition, Children's accidents, Personality (Psychology), Personality and cognition

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Integrating relationship constructs and emotional experience into false belief tasks in preschool children

Article Abstract:

Researchers examined false belief performance in young children. They asked children aged three to five years to perform false belief tasks related to object location then performed similar tests where the object was a caregiver. False belief performance in the object location tasks improved with increasing age but did not improve with age in the caregiver location tests. Further tests on the five-year-olds indicated that it was consideration of the caregiver's intent, rather than the fact that they were a caregiver, which influenced the older children's performance.

Age groups, Intelligence (Psychology), Reasoning in children, Childhood reasoning, Age and intelligence

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