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Toddler and Preschool Child Exam
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2023
Source: Heather Collette and Jaideep Talwalkar; Yale School of Medicine The key to a successful exam of a toddler or preschool-age child is building rapport and trust between them and the provider. Toddlers, in particular, may be wary of strangers and unwilling to cooperate with the physical exam, which is expected age-appropriate behavior. In order to provide good care and create a comfortable patient experience, clinicians need to tailor their interaction to the child's developmental stage.
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Measurement Of Neuromagnetic Brain Function In Pre-school Children With Custom Sized MEG
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2010
The advent of MEG systems sized for young children opens important new opportunities to study brain development. The new system, together with a protocol that aligns experimental requirements with the capacities of children, can be used to study cognitive and language processes in healthy, awake children aged three to six.
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How Children Solve Problems Using Causal Reasoning
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2023
Source: Laboratories of Judith Danovitch and Nicholaus Noles—University of Louisville Imagine a young child hears an adult say, “I want to watch the news,” then watches the adult press a button on the remote control. A moment later, the television screen turns on. The next day, the child wants to turn on the television screen to watch cartoons. How does the child know what to do? Is it enough to say, “I want to watch cartoons,” or is pushing the button on the remote control necessary, too?...
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A Minority of One: Conformity to Group Norms
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2023
Source: William Brady & Jay Van Bavel—New York University It is obvious that we are influenced by those around us, but in the early to mid 1900's, psychologists began to study how potent social influence can be on our thoughts and behaviors. Motivated in part by attempts to explain the behaviors of Nazi soldiers in World War II, one topic of considerable interest at the time in psychology was conformity, the phenomenon in which people match their attitudes, behaviors, or beliefs to group...
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Assessment of Cerebral Lateralization in Children using Functional Transcranial Doppler Ultrasound (fTCD)
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2010
Functional transcranial Doppler sonography (fTCD) is a simple and non-invasive ultrasound technique which can be used to assess the lateralization of cognitive functions, especially language, and is suitable for use with children.
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These psychological processes shape how children connect number words, symbols, quantities, and relationships. Cognitive development supports increasingly organized mathematical thinking, while language helps children understand and express numerical ideas. Attention allows them to focus on relevant quantities, sequences, or patterns. Differences in these processes can therefore affect how children demonstrate emerging mathematical understanding.
One-to-one correspondence helps children coordinate each number word or counting action with one object in a set. This connection supports more accurate understanding of quantity and reduces confusion between saying a number sequence and determining how many objects are present. Observing this skill can help identify how children are developing early numerical understanding.
Number relationships encourage children to consider how quantities compare and connect rather than treating numbers as isolated labels. Patterns add an organized structure that children can recognize across sequences or arrangements. Together, these areas provide information about whether children are noticing regularities, differences, and connections within early mathematical experiences.
An assessment can identify emerging strengths as well as possible difficulties in areas such as counting, quantity, number relationships, patterns, shapes, or measurement. This information gives educators a clearer basis for guiding instruction and recognizing where additional support may be useful. Assessment findings can also contribute to understanding factors associated with later mathematics achievement.
Play-based interventions create opportunities for children to develop mathematical understanding while engaging with quantities, number relationships, patterns, shapes, or measurement. Researchers and educators can use these activities to observe current abilities, address emerging difficulties, and guide instruction. Their value lies in connecting support with children’s active learning environments before formal schooling begins.
Studying early mathematical development helps psychologists examine how cognitive development, language, attention, and learning environments shape later mathematical thinking. It also provides a basis for assessing emerging abilities and evaluating play-based support. This early perspective is important because preschool experiences and identified difficulties can inform instruction and may relate to later achievement in mathematics.