The effects of knowledge availability and knowledge accessibility on coherence and elaborative inferencing in children from six to fifteen years of age

Article Abstract:

Knowledge accessibility is important for the development of coherence and elaborative inferencing in the presence of an available knowledge base. Age-related differences were found among 6- to 15-year-old children who acquired a knowledge base before hearing a multiepisode story and drew inferences from the base. Making the knowledge equally available to all children failed to remove these differences. Easily accessible knowledge was more likely to be used for inferencing during text comprehension than knowledge that was harder to access.

Analysis, Learning ability

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Children's affective responses, cognitive appraisals, and coping strategies in response to the negative affect of parents and peers

Article Abstract:

It was proposed that children would exhibit more intense affective responses, less active coping strategies and less confidence in response to parent negative affect, as opposed to peer negative affect. A study of these responses indicated that children felt unable to help themselves when faced with paternal distress and would practice avoidance coping strategies.

Observations, Psychological research

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Conceptualization of perceptual attributes: a special case for color?

Article Abstract:

This article examines visual cognitive development with a focus on young children's abilities to recognize color. The authors, maintaining color is an abstract concept, argue color cognition is not selectively delayed, as has been historically contended, but the delay is related to children's general delay in abstract object cognition.

Canada, Testing, Visual perception, Cognition in children, Cognitive development, Visual perception in children, Childhood perception

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