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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"late childhood"”.
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Maturation of Speech Discrimination and Attentional Requirements in Late Childhood
… becomes automatic. The experiments used event-related potentials (ERP) measures, with a particular focus on mismatch negativity (MMN) - a developmentally-sensitive index of automatic speech discrimination.</p> <p>The first experiment focused on children ages 6.0-11.9 years old, comparing the MMN …
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Stability and change of cognitive vulnerabilities from late childhood through adolescence
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01
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Fundamental Movement Skills, Physical Activity and Obesity from Early to Late Childhood
… over a five-year period between preschool and late primary among children from a highly deprived area of Northwest England and finally, d) gain the thoughts and opinions of experts and practitioners in order to help inform the development of an appropriate intervention to increase the physical …
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Executive Function in Late Childhood and Adolescence: Cultural Contrasts, Correlates, and Consequences
… Mage = 11.89 years, SD = 0.87) and by applying a latent variable modelling approach to examine (i) cultural contrasts in, (ii) correlates of, and (iii) consequences of EF in late childhood and adolescence. Both children and parents completed four computerised tests of EF (providing measures of …
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Late Childhood Predictors of Adolescent Cognitive Reappraisal: Impacts on Adolescent Depressive Symptoms
… CR, minimal research attempts to understand the childhood processes contributing to CR in adolescence. My dissertation study examined individual factors of executive function and frontal EEG asymmetry during late childhood, and environmental factors of parenting in adolescence, as predictors of …
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Cognitive Development in Late Childhood: An Examination of Working Memory and Inhibitory Control
… for the development of executive functioning in childhood (Brocki & Bohlin, 2004). Empirical work from early developmental periods supports the interactive WMIC framework (e.g., Bell, 2001; Diamond, Kirkham, & Amso, 2002) and has identified sources of variability (brain electrical activity, …
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Development of Neuroconnectivity and Inhibitory Control: Relation to Social Cognition in Late Childhood
… behavior. The development of these skills is related to and interdependent on other cognitive processes, particularly inhibitory control, which allows for willful suppression of dominant responses. Many aspects of social behavior rely on inhibitory control to moderate impulsive or socially …
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BIOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTORS OF EXTERNALIZING BEHAVIOR IN LATE CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE: A TWIN STUDY
… and delinquent peers or siblings would be related to increased externalizing behavior at follow-up. The sample consisted of 65 twin pairs, aged six to 16 (mean age = 9.06 years) who originally participated in the Southern Illinois Twins and Siblings Study (SITSS) at age five. Significant …
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Relational and physical aggression in late childhood : links to social adjustment in group and dyadic relations
Relational aggression (RA), thought to be more typical of females, is a form of aggression in which relationships are used as vehicles of harm (Crick & Grotpeter, 1995). This study investigated sex-differences in the prevalence of RA and physical aggression (PA), as well as the group and friendship …
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Affective development from late childhood to late adolescence: Trajectories of mean-level change in negative and positive affect
… psychological wellbeing. The present study used latent growth curve modeling (LGCM) to map trajectories of subjective mean-level negative (NA) and positive affect (PA) from late childhood to late adolescence in a sample of 652 community youth age 10 to 18 years (56.4% female) recruited in 3rd, …
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Lying to parents and friends: A longitudinal investigation of the relation between lying, relationship quality, and depression in late-childhood and early adolescence
Lie-telling has been suggested to increase from childhood through adolescence; however, research on how dishonesty influences other areas of functioning is limited. The goal of this thesis was to examine dishonesty separately in the context of parent-child and friendships in eight- to 14- year-old …
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The influence of child-parent and child-teacher relationships on the academic performance of children aged 10-12 years
… for all children, particularly during late childhood with the pending transition to high school and subsequent increase in academic demands. Research suggests that it is important for children in late childhood to achieve academically not only to aid their learning as schooling …
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Development of Cognitive Vulnerability for Depression in Youth: Sex, Emotional Maltreatment, and Depression Predict Negative Cognitive Style
… risk factor in hopelessness theory from childhood through adolescence. The current study utilized a multi-wave design and hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) analyses to examine mean-level negative cognitive style growth and stability in late childhood, early adolescence, and mid-late …
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Factors Affecting Episodic Memory Development
… of episodic memory through middle and late childhood, and how individual differences in health and lifestyle impact this development. The first study (Chapter 2) explored the developmental patterns of episodic memory including individual content elements (what, where and when) and …
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Short and long-term effects of birth weight and neonatal medical complications on children's emotional and behavioral outcomes
… influence on psychosocial functioning in late childhood. Importantly, the adverse effect of low birth weight on several of the age 10 outcomes was indirect through children's health status at birth. Specifically, the associations between birth weight and school aged adjustment difficulties …
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A Latent Growth Curve Analysis of Peer Difficulties, Self-Perceptions, and Peer Beliefs: Links to Psychological and School Adjustment
… peer relationship difficulties are predictive of later maladjustment, but the mechanisms by which these stressors may impair healthy development have yet to be identified. Maladaptive cognitive representations of the self and others constitute one set of potential mediators. The objectives of this …
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The development of a dyadic assessment for families experiencing
… of the spine that is typically diagnosed in late childhood and early adolescence. The timing of most AIS diagnoses and subsequent treatment occur at a critical point developmentally and may place strain on the parent-adolescent relationship. The present study developed a measure, The AIS …
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The world of Belle Dickey: A study of child life and childhood education in mid-nineteenth century Illinois
… Wallace, and their families. This discussion of childhood and a child's life is based upon these letters. Subjects included are education, recreation, household duties, moral and religious training, clothing, and illness. The study is divided into five sections: Background of the Period, Early …
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A Thematic Analysis of Gender Stereotypes in Children's Top Mobile Applications of 2018
… of the existing research examines children in late childhood and early adolescence, leaving the ages of six to eight relatively undiscussed. The researcher utilized a thematic analysis to review 20 children's mobile applications for instances of gender stereotypes. Social cognitive theory …
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Neural correlates for body perception development during childhood
… underlying emotional body perception, during childhood, using Event-Related Potentials (ERPs). Understanding other people’s emotional status is a crucial need in children’s everyday interactions. Literature suggests that children benefit from body cues as much as they do from facial cues in …
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