Nick Byrd, Ph.D.Can 3-6 year-olds distinguish between reliable vs. unreliable informants?
A study of 93 #kids found the children were sensitive to source reliability, with limited abilities to generalize across contexts.
Miglena Ivanova, M.S. đ§ đ¶ïžRT this #ResearchOpportunityđŹđ A #postdoc opening in Dr. Rina Eiden's #research lab @ PSU! Dive into an RCT, learn about #substance use, and get the opportunity to collaborate and work with longitudinal datasets. đ€°#AcademicJobs #ScienceJobs #DevPsych
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Postdoctoral Scholar - Development, Risk, and Resilience Lab
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The position involves working primarily on data management, analyses, and manuscript preparation for a randomized clinical trial â Strong Family Foundations (SFF). SFF is a randomized clinical trial for expecting families with heavy drinking fathers/non-pregnant partners. SFF is an adaptation of a universal preventive intervention to include alcohol content combined with couple level brief motivational intervention to promote health behavior change at the transition to parenthood. The aims of this trial are to examine the intervention effects on fathersâ/non-pregnant partnersâ heavy drinking, parent adjustment, couple functioning, and co-parenting, as well as to examine these as mediators of intervention effects on parenting and infant regulation. Opportunities exist to engage in other aspects of the clinical trial and to work on existing data from other longitudinal cohort studies, spanning prenatal period to adolescence. 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Do you expect #kids to learn #math better alone, collaboratively, or competitively?
In a study of 274 1st and 2nd graders, it varied by gender (and not how I would have expected).
Boys performed better after working alone or collaboratively, but didnât seem to benefit from competition.
On the harder tasks, girls benefitted *only* from competition.
Autistic adults weren't more likely to report lying in everyday situations than non-autistic adults (p - 0.259).
Age and theory of mind predicted fewer lies from non-autistic adults, but not autistics adults.
Lie acceptability predicted more lies in both groups.
Do you expect higher-quality #dialogue in small group discussions or whole class discussions?
It might depend on the metric:
- small groups fostered more invitation for peers to weigh in (d = 0.78, p < 0.001)
- whole classes generated more justifications of one's viewpoint (d = 0.69, p < 0.001)
Loads more insight from Herculean corpus analyses involving over 4000 students from 5 countries: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.linged.2023.101223
#edu #teaching #argumentation #P4C #corpusLinguistics #textAsData #DevPsych
Will high school students' reflection test performance predict the reasoning preferences and habits it does in adults?
Rizek and Toplak report "patterns of correlations are generally consistent with what has been reported in adult samples" in a sample of over 300 9th through 12 graders from North America:
Dimitri Coelho MolloCool little comment paper by Michael Frank on why LLMs and other Large Pre-Trained AI models can be fruitfully studied using methods and techniques coming from developmental psychology:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44159-023-00211-x
I've been working on a similar approach to understanding such systems, so it's great to see such ideas get their chance in the Nature spotlight!
Baby steps in evaluating the capacities of large language models - Nature Reviews Psychology
Large language models show remarkable capacities, but it is unclear what abstractions support their behaviour. Methods from developmental psychology can help researchers to understand the representations used by these models, complementing standard computational approaches â and perhaps leading to insights about the nature of mind.
(2/2) ...autistic people's âattention to detailâ Autism Quotient subscores *strongly* predicted more reflectionâsignificantly more than neurotypical participants' scores!
(z-scores mine)
These results of better matching help explain why scientists *sometimes* find a correlation between #autism and #reflection test performance: #attention to detail?
Find the free paper in Journal of #intelligence https://doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence11060124
The Development of Intuitive and Analytic Thinking in Autism: The Case of Cognitive Reflection
The cognitive reflection test (CRT) is a short measure of a personâs ability to resist intuitive response tendencies, and to produce normatively correct responses that are assumed to be based on effortful, analytic thinking. A remarkable characteristic of the CRT is that although the questions are open-ended, for each item, the vast majority of people either produce a correct, analytic response or a typical incorrect (i.e., intuitive) response. This unique feature of the CRT makes it possible to investigate the question of whether autistic and neurotypical people share the same intuitions. We report a study that included adolescents and young adults. In both age groups, autistic and neurotypical participants were matched on age, gender, cognitive ability, and educational background. In line with previous findings, the results showed an age-related increase in analytic responding on the CRT, and a decrease in intuitive responding. Crucially, the proportion of both intuitive and analytic responses across autistic and neurotypical participants was identical in both age groups. The current results are in contrast with claims that autistic individuals have an increased tendency toward an analytic/rational type of processing, which is commonly attributed to an impairment within their intuitive reasoning mechanisms.
Teresa McCormack closed the #SPP2023 #preconference on #memory with âThe value of remembering and anticipating experiences: a developmental perspectiveâ
It wasâas Teresa put itâdangerously close to an #xPhi talk. It adapted a famous thought experiment (from Derek Parfit?) to test kidsâ and adultsâ intuitions about how much we care about past, present, or future versions of us.
Follow Dr. McCormack on gScholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=g9T7yn8AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Tamar Kushnirâs #SPP2023 presidential address tried to answer, âWhen do children become responsible for moral decisions?â
Evidence suggests peopleâs opinions vary by culture, as do laws, but thereâs evidence that kids develop the ability to understand moral aspects of decisions (including that some decisions seem to be moral).
Find/follow Dr. Kushnir on gScholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=TMuSMXoAAAAJ&hl=en
