Stability in cognition across early childhood - A developmental cascade
Stability in cognition across early childhood - A developmental cascade
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01678.x
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发表时间：
2006-02-01
影响因子：
8.2
通讯作者：
Wolke, D
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作者：
Bornstein, MH;Hahn, CS;Wolke, D
儿童面临着一项艰巨的任务，即吸收环境中的信息，并使他们的认知结构适应这些信息。发展科学同样关注这些过程的两个明显特征：儿童群体的平均表现水平和儿童个体在时间上的地位。自心理测量运动开始以来，普遍的观点是，个体发展是不稳定的--个体儿童在他们的能力上发生不可预测的变化。我们报告了一项大规模受控、多变量、前瞻性、微遗传学、为期4年的纵向研究的结果，该研究揭示了从婴儿期到儿童期的物种典型认知能力的统计显著级联。婴儿期是生活的一个可识别的起点；我们发现，在很小但很重要的程度上，婴儿期也代表着个人生活的一个起点。
Children confront the formidable task of assimilating information in the environment and accommodating their cognitive structures to that information. Developmental science is concerned equally with two distinctive features of these processes: children's group mean level of performance through time and the standing of individual children through time. Prevailing opinion since the inception of the mental-measurement movement has been that individual development is unstable-that individual children change unpredictably in their abilities. We report results of a large-scale controlled, multivariate, prospective, microgenetic, 4-year longitudinal study that reveals a statistically significant cascade of species-typical cognitive abilities from infancy to childhood. Infancy is a recognizable starting point of life; we find that to a small but significant degree, infancy also represents a setting point in the life of the individual.