Are thoughts impossible without the words to express them? It has been claimed that this is the case for thoughts about numbers: Children cannot have the concept of exact numbers until they know the words for them, and adults in cultures whose languages lack a counting vocabulary similarly cannot possess these concepts. Here, using classical methods of developmental psychology, we show that chi...

Theory of mind studies of emotion usually focus on children’s ability to predict other people’s feelings. This study examined children’s spontaneous references to mental states in explaining others’ emotions. Children (4-, 6and 10-year-olds, n1⁄4122) were told stories and asked to explain both typical and atypical emotional reactions of characters. Because atypical emotional reactions are unexp...

This monograph discusses research, theory, and practice relevant to how children learn to read English. After an initial overview of writing systems, the discussion summarizes research from developmental psychology on children's language competency when they enter school and on the nature of early reading development. Subsequent sections review theories of learning to read, the characteristics ...

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Hospital to School Transitions for Children: A Multiple Case Study of Family Experiences By Rhiannon Y. Rager Dr. W. Paul Jones, Examination Committee Chair Professor of Educational Psychology University of Nevada, Las Vegas Dr. Lori Olafson, Examination Committee Co-Chair Executive Director, Office of Research Integrity and Professor of Educational Psychology University of Nevada, Las Vegas Ch...

Emotional competence is one of the essential abilities to be possessed by children. Children with good emotional will able understand their emotions toward themselves or others well. This help children adjust and interact well in social environment. study aims develop an competency test kit for preschoolers. The items on this are based theory presented Denham. consists eight-story scenarios tha...

Two experiments attempted to reconcile discrepant recent findings relating to children's color naming and categorization. In a replication of Franklin and colleagues (Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 90 (2005) 114-141), Experiment 1 tested English toddlers' naming and memory for blue-green and blue-purple colors. It also found advantages for between-category presentations that could be...

This article reviews the literature on peer relations and social skills of children with learning disabilities (LD). Two risk models are discussed. The single-risk model suggests that for some children with LD, social skills deficits are inherent in the disability. These deficits lead to problems with social relationships, which foster internalizing behavior problems. The multiplerisk model sug...

Excretory dysfunction associated with congenital anal anomalies (a generic term that includes anal atresia and Hirschsprung's disease) is presumed to greatly affect the psychology of the affected children. In this study, we conducted a survey on the psychological status of children with excretory dysfunction, and investigated the relationship between the affected children and their families in ...

For much of their history, the relationship between anthropology and psychology has been well captured by Robert Frost's poem, "Mending Wall," which ends with the ironic line, "good fences make good neighbors." The congenial fence was that anthropology studied what people think and psychology studied how people think. Recent research, however, shows that content and process cannot be neatly seg...