Eight-year-olds, but not six-year-olds, perform just as well as adults when playing Concentration: Resolving the enigma?

Krøjgaard, Peter; Sonne, Trine; Lerebourg, Maëlle; Lambek, Rikke; Kingo, Osman S.

doi:10.1016/j.concog.2019.01.015

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“…In this memory game, participants flip two cards over on each turn, with the goal of uncovering matching pairs of pictures. Although there were no age differences in the number of trials it took participants to uncover all of the pairs, 5- to 9-year-old children were more efficient: They were more likely to find the pair as soon as they knew the location of both pictures ( Baker-Ward & Ornstein, 1988 ; cf., Krøjgaard et al, 2019 ; Schumann-Hengsteler, 1996 ). Five-year-olds also made fewer spatial errors (i.e., selecting an incorrect card that is adjacent to the correct card) than older children and adults ( Schumann-Hengsteler, 1996 ).…”

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The Sweet Spot: When Children’s Developing Abilities, Brains, and Knowledge Make Them Better Learners Than Adults

Gualtieri

Finn

2022

Perspect Psychol Sci

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Cognitive development is marked by age-related improvements across a number of domains, as young children perform worse than their older counterparts on most tasks. However, there are cases in which young children, and even infants, outperform older children and adults. So when, and why, does being young sometimes confer an advantage? This article provides a comprehensive examination of the peculiar cases in which younger children perform better. First, we outline the specific instances in which younger is better across domains, including mastering language, using probabilistic information, detecting causal relations, remembering certain information, and even solving problems. We then examine how children’s reduced cognitive abilities, ongoing brain development, more limited prior knowledge, and heightened tendency to explore benefits their learning, reasoning, perception, and memory from a mechanistic perspective. We hold that considering all of these factors together is essential for understanding the ways in which children’s learning is unique and that science has much to learn from a careful consideration of childhood.

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Section: When Are Younger Children Better Than Older Children and Adu...mentioning

confidence: 99%

The Sweet Spot: When Children’s Developing Abilities, Brains, and Knowledge Make Them Better Learners Than Adults

Gualtieri

Finn

2022

Perspect Psychol Sci

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“…Within this particular study, the AOIs were large and it may have only impacted on boundaries such as navigation icons that are adjacent to the next AOI. Other studies have reported the accuracy [28,91], however care needs to be taken as accuracy is often based on the manufacturers data obtained in ideal test conditions and in the real world the accuracy may sometimes be higher [92]. There are many challenges identified in obtaining eye tracking data from children, despite this there is a growing number of publications evidencing the effectiveness of modern eye trackers for use in studies with children.…”

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