Showing papers in "Developmental Review in 2013"

TL;DR: A literature review of the current knowledge surrounding individual and gender differences in STEM educational and career choices, using expectancy-value theory as a guiding framework to provide both a well-defined theoretical framework and complementary empirical evidence for linking specific sociocultural, contextual, biological, and psychological factors.

TL;DR: This work describes, discusses, and evaluates four prominent sampling strategies in developmental science: population-based probability sampling, convenience sampling, quota sampling, and homogeneous sampling.

TL;DR: The authors found that self-identification as mostly heterosexual or acknowledgment of slight same-sex sexuality increases during the teenage years, peaks around the early twenties (somewhat sooner for men than women), and remains relatively high during young adulthood.

TL;DR: This article reviewed major statistical and psychometric issues impacting the study of psychophysiological reactivity and discuss their implications for applied developmental researchers, highlighting the need for increased attention to the ubiquitous nature of measurement error in observed variables and the importance of employing latent variable models when possible, and increased specification of theories relating to the construct of reactivity.

TL;DR: In this paper, a model linking developmental coordination disorder (DCD) to internalizing problems based on the Pearlin's stress process framework is proposed, which incorporates both physical activity and obesity into the stress model.

TL;DR: This paper found that women report more vivid memory experiences than men and women include more details about emotions, about other people, and about the meaningfulness of their memories, and that gender differences can be attributed to the influence of conversations with parents when autobiographical memory skills are developing.

TL;DR: In this article, a systematic review examines the links between childhood physical abuse and neglect and various constituent skills of social understanding (including emotion recognition and understanding, perspective taking, false belief understanding, and attributional biases) in 51 empirical studies.

TL;DR: Simulation of eye-movement phenomena in adults vs. children suggests that the primary difference between children and adults is their rate of lexical processing, and that different rates of (post-lexical) language processing may also contribute to some phenomena.

TL;DR: This paper investigated the presence of model-based cultural transmission biases in young children's copying of a model and argued that such biases are adaptive and flexible, and suggested future areas of research including considering the social aspect of modelbased biases and understanding their use within a comparative perspective.

TL;DR: An in-depth review of the youth AB functional neuroimaging literature with a focus on integrating research from neuroscience and developmental psychopathology, as well as placing this research in the context of other related areas.

TL;DR: It is argued that perceptual biases may play a causal role in privileging fear learning for certain threats, and directions for future work are suggested that can clarify whether early biases in perception indeed facilitate the development of the authors' most common fears.

TL;DR: The authors identify a structural continuity between the emergence of this earliest form of prospective movement and the structure of mental states as intentional or content-directed in more advanced forms, and claim the prospective structural continuity from early and simple actions to later complex projects of serially-ordered actions confirms the existence of an ontogenetically primary form of contentdirectedness.

TL;DR: The evidence linking the early development of the autonomic nervous system in early childhood to four proximal risk factors: maternal stress duringregnancy, maternal substance use during pregnancy, poor-quality parent–child interactions, and specific disruptions in parenting behavior is reviewed.

TL;DR: The authors showed that autistic deficits in social reciprocity and a cognitive/perceptual'style' favouring detail-oriented cognition co-vary in autistic individuals, and that these two domains are normally distributed throughout the population, with autism representing an extremity.

TL;DR: The review is organized with respect to four basic processes by which phenotypes adapt to environmental challenges, with an emphasis on the data for humans: developmental plasticity, epigenetic mechanisms, genotype-environment correlations, and gene × environment interactions.

TL;DR: Luke and Banerjee as mentioned in this paper present a meta-analysis and systematic review of research on the links between childhood maltreatment and social understanding and consider the specific obstacles faced by researchers in this area when seeking to understand the role played by social contextual factors.