Science Education - Psychology
Developmental Psychology

Habituation: Studying Infants Before They Can Talk
Source: Laboratories of Nicholaus Noles, Judith Danovitch, and Cara Cashon—University of Louisville Infants are one of the purest sources of ...

Using Your Head: Measuring Infants' Rational Imitation of Actions
Source: Laboratories of Judith Danovitch and Nicholaus Noles—University of Louisville One of the main challenges of infancy is to learn how to ...

The Rouge Test: Searching for a Sense of Self
Source: Laboratories of Nicholaus Noles and Judith Danovitch—University of Louisville Humans are different from other animals in many ways, but one ...

Numerical Cognition: More or Less
Source: Laboratories of Nicholaus Noles and Judith Danovitch—University of Louisville One of the goals of the modern education system is to teach ...

Mutual Exclusivity: How Children Learn the Meanings of Words
Source: Laboratories of Nicholaus Noles and Judith Danovitch—University of Louisville Humans are different from other animals in many ways, but ...

How Children Solve Problems Using Causal Reasoning
Source: Laboratories of Judith Danovitch and Nicholaus Noles—University of Louisville Imagine a young child hears an adult say, “I want to ...

Metacognitive Development: How Children Estimate Their Memory
Source: Laboratories of Judith Danovitch and Nicholaus Noles—University of Louisville Human memory is fallible, and people often cannot accurately ...

Executive Function and the Dimensional Change Card Sort Task
Source: Laboratories of Nicholaus Noles and Judith Danovitch—University of Louisville Infants are born with amazing cognitive resources at their ...

Categories and Inductive Inferences
Source: Laboratories of Nicholaus Noles and Judith Danovitch—University of Louisville It might be possible for the human brain to keep track of each ...

The Costs and Benefits of Natural Pedagogy
Source: Laboratories of Nicholaus Noles, Judith Danovitch, and Asheley Landrum—University of Louisville Children have many tools they use over the ...

Piaget's Conservation Task and the Influence of Task Demands
Source: Laboratories of Judith Danovitch and Nicholaus Noles—University of Louisville Jean Piaget was a pioneer in the field of developmental ...

Children's Reliance on Artist Intentions When Identifying Pictures
Source: Laboratories of Judith Danovitch and Nicholaus Noles—University of Louisville Children are not the best artists. Sometimes it’s easy ...

Measuring Children's Trust in Testimony
Source: Laboratories of Judith Danovitch and Nicholaus Noles—University of Louisville How does a person learn about the world around them? One way ...

Are You Smart or Hardworking? How Praise Influences Children's Motivation
Source: Laboratories of Judith Danovitch and Nicholaus Noles—University of Louisville Imagine teaching two children how to skate. It is a hard task ...

Memory Development: Demonstrating How Repeated Questioning Leads to False Memories
Source: Laboratories of Judith Danovitch and Nicholaus Noles—University of Louisville A person is defined as a unique individual based on the people ...