Papers by David Bjorklund
De jongste soort
Neem de tijd voor de kindertijd, 2009
Laten we hopen dat het niet klopt; maar als het wel zo is, laten we dan hopen dat het niet al te ... more Laten we hopen dat het niet klopt; maar als het wel zo is, laten we dan hopen dat het niet al te bekend wordt.
Ontogenetic Adaptations
Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science, 2016
Evolutionary Developmental Psychology
Evolutionary Developmental Psychology
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. eBooks, Sep 8, 2015
Psicothema, 2018
Background: Young children often use magical explanations to account for ordinary phenomena (e.g.... more Background: Young children often use magical explanations to account for ordinary phenomena (e.g., “The sun's not out today because it is mad”). We labeled these explanations supernatural thinking. Previous research reports that supernatural thinking attributed to preschool‐age children evokes both positive affect and perceptions of helplessness from both adults and older (14‐17 years old) but not younger (10‐13 years old) adolescents. In this study, we asked if cues of cognitive immaturity are more influential in affecting adolescents' judgments of children than physical cues (faces). Method: 245 adolescents aged between 10 and 17 rated pairs of children who physically and/or cognitively resembled either a 4‐ to 7‐year‐old or an 8‐ to 10‐year‐old child in three between‐subject conditions (Consistent, Inconsistent, Faces‐Only) for 14 traits classified into four trait dimensions (Positive Affect, Negative Affect, Intelligence, Helplessness). Results: For both younger and olde...
History and controversy
The origins of human nature: Evolutionary developmental psychology.
The Role of Knowledge in the Developmentof Strategies: David F. Bjorklund, Jacqueline E. Muir-Broaddus, and Wolfgang Schneider
All in the family: Parents and other relations
Children's thinking : cognitive development and individual differences / David F. Bjorklund
A comprehensive book supported by extensive research studies and data, Bjorklund's text prese... more A comprehensive book supported by extensive research studies and data, Bjorklund's text presents the broadest coverage of topics in cognitive development. Unlike other books, Bjorklund shows readers how developmental function can help explain individual differences in cognition by covering both the typical pattern of change in thinking observed over time and the individual differences in children's thinking in infancy and childhood. A major theme of this book is the continuous transaction between the embodied child embedded in a social world: although a child is born prepared to make some sense of the world, his or her mind is also shaped by forces in the physical and social environment.
Children's Strategies: Their Definition and Origins: David F. Bjorklund and Katherine Kipp Harnishfeger
Children's Strategies: A Brief History: Katherine Kipp Harnishfeger and David F. Bjorklund
The Development of Strategic Memory: Coordinating Knowledge, Metamemory, and resources: Mark L. Howe and julia T. O'Sullivan
아동의 자기과대평가의 적응적 가치
한국심리학회지: 발달, Dec 1, 2005
Children's Strategies
Contents: K.K. Harnishfeqer, D.F. Bjorklund, Children's Strategies: A Brief History. P. Willa... more Contents: K.K. Harnishfeqer, D.F. Bjorklund, Children's Strategies: A Brief History. P. Willatts, Development of Problem-Solving Strategies in Infancy. T.H. Folds, M. Footo, R.E. Guttentag, P.A. Ornstein, When Children Mean to Remember: Issues of Context Specificity, Strategy Effectiveness, and Intentionality in the Development of Memory. D.F. Bjorklund, J.E. Muir, W. Schneider, The Role of Knowledge in the Development of Children's Strategies. M.L. Howe, J.T. O'Sullivan, The Development of Strategic Memory: Coordinating Knowledge, Metamemory, and Resources. P.H. Miller, The Development of Strategies of Selective Atten- tion. M.H. Ashcraft, Strategic Processing in Children's Mental Arithmetic. J. Bisanz, J. LeFevre, Strategic and Nonstrategic Processing in the Development of Mathematical Cognition. B. Gholson, D. Morgan, A.R. Danel, The Development of Analogical Problem Solving: Strategic Processes in Schema Acquisition and Transfer R. Garner, Children's Use of Strategies in Reading D.F. Bjorklund, K.K. Harnishfeger, Children's Strategies: Their Definition and Origins.
Developing the Evolved Social Brain
Oxford University Press eBooks, Oct 22, 2020
For human hypersociality to evolve required that natural selection operate both at the levels of ... more For human hypersociality to evolve required that natural selection operate both at the levels of the individual and the group as described by multilevel selection theory. According to the social brain hypothesis, increased social cognition was the driving force in human social-cognitive evolution. Infants evolved “psychological weapons” designed to obtain attention and caregiving from adults. According to Tomasello’s shared intentionality theory, infants view others as intentional agents, as reflected in shared attention beginning around 9 months, and later, between 3 and 5 years of age, in collective intentionality, in which children establish a group-minded “we” with other people. The development and evolution of hypersociality is reflected in: treating others as intentional agents, perspective taking, empathy, normativity, social learning, prosociality (helping, sharing, sense of fairness), and collaboration. Each of these and other social-cognitive abilities were necessary for the evolution of a hypersocial species and evolved as a result of changes in great ape ontogeny.
Perceptual and Motor Skills, Dec 1, 1973
The aim of the present study was to approximate the initial amount of information obtained by the... more The aim of the present study was to approximate the initial amount of information obtained by the visual and haptic systems from exposure to a stimulus. College students were presented with 10-sided random forms at 1\ exposures (2-, 5-, 10-, and 15-sec.) in two modalities (visual and haptic) and under two delay conditions (no delay and IO-sec. delay) and were required to draw each form. Drawings were scored on accuracy of match to the original form. Results indicated that (a) in general, scores increased with increasing exposure time; (b) visual exploration was superior to haptic exploration; and (c) the delay variable did not affect performance. In Exp. II college students were again presented with l O-sidcd random forms under 5 modality-by-exposure conditions. Thirty sec. of I-handed haptic exploration resulted in comparable performance to 2 sec. visual exploration. The results are discussed in terms of the disparity of the information-gathering capacities of the visual and haptic systems.
PubMed, May 1, 2018
Background: Young children often use magical explanations to account for ordinary phenomena (e.g.... more Background: Young children often use magical explanations to account for ordinary phenomena (e.g., "The sun's not out today because it is mad"). We labeled these explanations supernatural thinking. Previous research reports that supernatural thinking attributed to preschool-age children evokes both positive affect and perceptions of helplessness from both adults and older (14-17 years old) but not younger (10-13 years old) adolescents. In this study, we asked if cues of cognitive immaturity are more influential in affecting adolescents' judgments of children than physical cues (faces). Method: 245 adolescents aged between 10 and 17 rated pairs of children who physically and/or cognitively resembled either a 4- to 7-year-old or an 8- to 10-year-old child in three between-subject conditions (Consistent, Inconsistent, Faces-Only) for 14 traits classified into four trait dimensions (Positive Affect, Negative Affect, Intelligence, Helplessness). Results: For both younger and older adolescents, cognitive cues had a greater influence on judgments than facial cues. However, only the older adolescents demonstrated a positive bias for children expressing immature supernatural thinking. Conclusions: Adopting an evolutionary developmental perspective, we interpreted this outcome in late (but not early) adolescence as preparation for potential parenthood.
Cognition always occurs in some context. When children (or adults) have performed in a particular... more Cognition always occurs in some context. When children (or adults) have performed in a particular setting before or have dealt previously with the materials or ~nformation pertinent to the task at band, levels of performance are typically higher than when the context is less familiar. Fischer (1980), in bis theory of cognitive development, mad;l 93
Deferred Imitation
Encyclopedia of Human Development, Feb 25, 2013
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