[HTML][HTML] Explanation-seeking curiosity in childhood

EG Liquin, T Lombrozo - Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 2020 - Elsevier
Highlights•Explanation-seeking curiosity (ESC) motivates the pursuit of explanations.•ESC is
highly selective: it is not triggered merely by ignorance or uncertainty.•Children can acquire …

The development of cumulative cultural learning

CH Legare - Annual Review of Developmental Psychology, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Human culture is unique among animals in its complexity, variability, and cumulative quality.
This article describes the development and diversity of cumulative cultural learning. Children …

[图书][B] Children′ s thinking: Cognitive development and individual differences

DF Bjorklund - 2022 - books.google.com
Children's Thinking: Cognitive Development and Individual Differences, Seventh Edition by
David Bjorklund remains the most comprehensive and current topical textbook available in …

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 …

The complex associations between scientific reasoning and advanced theory of mind

C Osterhaus, S Koerber - Child Development, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract This 6‐wave longitudinal study (2014–2018) of 161 German 5‐to 10‐year‐olds
from a midsized city and rural area in southern Germany (89 females, 72 males; …

Whether and how knowledge moderates linkages between parent–child conversations and children's reflections about tinkering in a children's museum

DI Acosta, NJ Polinsky, CA Haden… - Journal of Cognition and …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
This study is a collaborative project between university researchers and museum
practitioners investigating ways to advance STEM learning opportunities for young children …

Interest, mindsets and engagement: Longitudinal relations in science orientations for adolescents in informal science programs

A Joy, CJ Mathews, M Zhao, F Law, L McGuire… - Journal of Youth and …, 2023 - Springer
Little is known about the factors that influence engagement for adolescents participating in
informal youth science programs. This study examined longitudinal reciprocal associations …

Explaining and exploring the dynamics of parent–child interactions and children's causal reasoning at a children's museum exhibit

SR McHugh, M Callanan, G Jaeger… - Child …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This study examines how parents' and children's explanatory talk and exploratory behaviors
support children's causal reasoning at a museum in San Jose, CA in 2017. One‐hundred …

Parental praise and children's exploration: a virtual reality experiment

E Brummelman, S Grapsas, K van der Kooij - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
When children practice a new skill and fail, it is critical for them to explore new strategies to
succeed. How can parents encourage children's exploration? Bridging insights from …

[图书][B] Making schools work: Bringing the science of learning to joyful classroom practice

K Hirsh-Pasek, RM Golinkoff, K Nesbitt, C Lautenbach… - 2022 - books.google.com
If we teach in the way that human brains learn, both students and their teachers will thrive!
This book aligns evidence from the learning sciences on how and what students need to …