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November 15, 2019: "Watching a video together creates social closeness between children and adults."
In our lab meeting this week we read Wolf and Tomasello's (2020) study, which looked at the influence of watching a film next to a new...
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November 7, 2019: "How adults' actions, outcomes, and testimony affect preschoolers' persistence."
In our lab meeting this week we discussed Leonard, Garcia and Schulz's (2019) study, "How adults' actions, outcomes, and testimony affect...
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November 1, 2019: "Caregiver-child interaction influences causal learning...."
In our lab meeting this week we discussed Medina and Sobel's (2018) study, "Caregiver-child interaction influences causal learning and...
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August 22, 2019: "'I Need Help!' Social Class and Children's Help-Seeking in Elementary School."
In our lab meeting this week we discussed Calarco's (2011) longitudinal, ethnographic study of a socioeconomically diverse elementary...
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July 17, 2019: "Shared Scientific Thinking in Everyday Parent-Child Activity."
In our lab meeting this week we discussed Crowley and colleagues' (2001) study, which investigated whether parents shape and support...
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July 3, 2019: "Preschoolers' Search for Explanatory Information Within Adult-Child Conversation."
In our lab meeting this week we discussed Frazier, Gelman and Wellman's (2009) studies on children's questions and the reactions to the...
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June 26, 2019: "How basic-level objects facilitate question-asking in a categorization task."
In our lab meeting this week we discussed Rugerri and Fuefel's (2015) experiments, which investigated the effect of level of...
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June 19, 2019: "Finding New Facts; Thinking New Thoughts."
Today we had our first weekly lab meeting. We discussed Schulz's (2012) article, in which she discusses the ways "contemporary...
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