Children's evolved learning abilities and their implications for education

DF Bjorklund - Educational Psychology Review, 2022 - Springer
In this article, I examine children's evolved learning mechanisms that make humans the most
educable of animals. These include (1) skeletal perceptual and cognitive mechanisms that …

Supporting Latine children's informal engineering learning through tinkering and oral storytelling.

DI Acosta, CA Haden - Developmental psychology, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Providing equitable informal science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)
learning opportunities to young children from diverse backgrounds may be a way to …

Museum-based tinkering and engineering learning opportunities among Latine families with young children

DI Acosta, CA Haden - Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2022 - Elsevier
This study addressed whether and how tinkering experiences in a children's museum can
provide informal engineering learning opportunities for Latine families. Forty-two Latine …

[HTML][HTML] Curiosity and children's memory for a dinosaur exhibit

SB Festini, AM Lutzio, S Condorelli, SJ Henning - Cognitive Development, 2025 - Elsevier
Curiosity can boost memory. Here, curiosity and memory were evaluated within children
aged 4–9-years old, after their interaction with a novel triceratops dinosaur exhibit at a …

Exploring Early Cognitive Development in Context

JL Coffman, AE Westover, OK Cook, A Lutolli… - WAIMH Handbook of …, 2024 - Springer
In this chapter, the authors explore cognitive development across the first 5 years of life.
Emphasis is on cognitive domains such as memory, attention, perception, executive …

Maternal reminiscing style and children's eyewitness testimony.

R Fivush - 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Comments on the article by GF Principe and K. London (see record 2023-02505-001), which
extends the examination of maternal reminiscing style to address forensically relevant …

Supporting Latine Children's Informal Engineering Learning and Spatial Thinking through Tinkering and Storytelling

DI Acosta - 2022 - search.proquest.com
Abstract In the United States, the Latine community is the fastest growing minority group.
Projections estimate that by the year 2060, they will represent 28% of the total population …