Previous examinations of young children's political cognition have mainly followed a socialization framework, through large-scale surveys of children's developing comprehension of the adult political world as a knowledge-goal. However, this research was formulated in the belief …
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A series of studies were conducted with the aim of showing that the Representational Redescription (RR) model (Karmiloff-Smith, 1992) can be used a general model of cognitive development. In this thesis, 3 aspects of the RR model were explored. The first set of experiments invol…
This thesis sought to conceptualise children’s spelling and reading representations in a novel way based upon the implicit-explicit framework proposed by the Representational-Redescription (RR) model (Karmiloff-Smith, 1992). The children studied were aged 4-7 years. Existing mod…
The current research examined whether nonword repetition (NWR) tasks, designed to measure phonological short-term memory, are also influenced by familiarity with lexical representation of a given language. In Study 1, children with and without exposure to Hebrew were administere…
The ideological gap between Western and Marxist psychology is of paradigmatic proportions, and few attempts were made to bridge it. However, recently, Vygotsky's/Luria's cognitive psychology has overshadowed Piagetian psychology, but in spite of this new prominence, Vygotskean p…
The purpose of this study was to research the influences of early childhood care providers’ characteristics (education, years of experience, and professional development) on Fragile Family children’s cognitive and behavioral outcomes in Kindergarten. An Expost facto secondary co…
The liturgical event--multi-sensory in the interpersonal formation that occurs--is a meaningful developmental experience for infants. This project explores how the infant's engagement in interpersonal communion, supported by clinical and theoretical findings in developmental psy…