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Looking for literature on detailed developmental milestones (and their prerequisites) for a child of a given age
I would like to know if there is any scientific literature on the detailed developmental milestones in different domains(cognitive, language etc.,) that a child of a given age is supposed to reach.
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Are correlations between intelligence domains expected to increase or decrease over childhood and adolescence?
I've been reading a lot of different theories about how intelligence develops over childhood and adolescence, and I'm wondering about one specific aspect of it: The change or stability of the ...
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How would a human baby's brain develop if born in a sensory deprivation chamber?
According to Scientific American, people who are blind can learn to use their sense of hearing more efficiently. Similarly, deaf people, may learn to utilize their vision more effectively. While the 5 ...
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How do we call a tendency of young children to accept things as facts without doubting them?
I have noticed that young children don't doubt a lot of things. If a teacher tell them "1+1=2", they usually just learn it without questioning. When those children get older, they often start to ...
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Death caused by "Failure to Thrive" (FTT)
This question, whilst to a degree can be seen as "common sense" in some respects, has puzzled me in other ways.
Looking at the situations where Failure to Thrive (FTT) can cause death, even ...
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Appropriate age grouping for studying linguistic development
I am publishing a survey on a crowdsourcing platform to study how people of different ages perceive certain aspects of non-literal language. The platform allows me to target people with ages in ...
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What is the optimal way to run the Piaget Conservation of Number Task?
I am hoping to run a standard Piaget conservation task to test the conservation of number. The task is as follows:
Coins such as pennies are placed on a table. A certain number of
coins are ...
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How sound is the psychology of Westworld?
Disclaimer: I am very much a layman in these areas of research, so please do amend the question in order to conform to conventional usage of terminology and definitions thereof.
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Which research article showed that East Asian parents used verbs more to their infants and toddlers?
Which research article showed that East Asian parents used verbs more while White parents used adjectives more and had implications for causal and math learning?
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What are "daddy issues"?
The question is whether there exists a phenomenon in which a girl that had a bad relationship with a father (referring to a father that's too harsh, too cruel or that doesn't show love, and hates his ...
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Role of shared gaze/joint attention in infants for the development of executive function
I'm trying to find research on the role of interactions between caregiver and infant via shared gaze/joint attention for the development of executive abilities, including attention and inhibition. My ...
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What is the correlation between the development of the sense of self and the senses?
Children develop different senses of self at a couple of different ages. Normally developing children pass the 'Sally-Anne' test at about 4 years of age and the 'Mirror test' at around 18 months. My ...
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