Close relationships, individual differences, and early literacy learning

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Researchers' observations of kindergarten children confirmed their hypothesis that children's friendship dyads supported conflicts and resolutions, and that this pattern generated emotional and literate language. Non-friendship dyads had conflicts that were less likely to have resolutions or to generate emotional or literate language. The study supported earlier findings that friends' conflicts and resolutions promote cognitive development. The researchers also tested a model for examining the role of temperament in the development of interactions and related cognitive development.

Cognition in children, Cognitive development, Temperament in children, Childhood temperament, Childhood friendship

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Instructional and contextual effects on external memory strategy use in young children

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Research shows that four-year-old children need greater situational support than six-year-old children prior to demonstrating cognitive competencies. Five situations were used to analyse the external representation strategy use of young children, with the usage shown to increase when the children were given physical or verbal prompts or were trained. A range of strategies was used by the young children to perform object placement tasks in experiments. The use of external representation strategies did not rise with verbal instructions that were less explicit.

Memory in children, Children's memory

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The effect of Kana literacy acquisition on the speech segmentation unit used by Japanese young children

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People listening to their native language are known to use a speech segmentation procedure that is language specific and linked to its rhythm. An investigation looked at whether young children's segmentation units would alter as they learned to read kana letters, which are subsyllabic rhythmic units. Results suggest that the children's conscious segmentation of words developed from being a combination of syllable and mora based, to being predominantly mora based.

Speech

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